just realized: is it perhaps that in the first case, the square brackets are interpreted as a list of parameters to \startformula?

2011/5/12 Julian Becker <becker.julian@gmail.com>
I just found out that I cannot (with MkIV on Windows XP, ConTeXt  ver. 2011.02.09 16:42) compile the following

\starttext
This formula produces an error:
\startformula
[r_{\rm test}]=a
\stopformula
\stoptext
\starttext 
However, this works:
\startformula
a=[r_{\rm test}]
\stopformula

What's going on here? Using \mathrm instead of \rm in the subscript is compiling without complaint, but produces the wrong output.

Julian



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