On 6/4/2013 3:04 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
Hoi Sander,
Sander wrote:
This gives basically three equally long division lines
The fraction line of a nested fractions is in fact shorter than that of its parent fraction, but by a very small amout. This seems to be the standard behaviour -- I tried the formula in LaTeX, and the difference is just as small.
I agree with you that it would be nice if the difference were a bit bigger in the case of continued fractions, but I suspect that would be hard to automate. Anyway: below is a quick hack for manual adjustment.
(I've simplified your formula somewhat -- the one in your mail threw some syntax errors to do with {} nesting, and the square roots made it harder to make out the fraction line.)
Cheers, Sietse
% Declare a new dimension variable \newdimen\padwidth
% Set dimen \padwidth=1em % Define a command that adds a padwidth-sized kern \define[0]\pad{\kern \padwidth}
% Needed for the formula \def\VAR#1{\text{VAR}(#1)}
\startformula \frac{ \mu_{Z} }{ \pad\frac{ \VAR{Z} }{ N_{\text{segments}} }\pad } \stopformula
ok, a new feature for SB: \definemathfraction [wfrac] [margin=.25em] \starttext \startformula \wfrac { a } { \frac { b } { c } } \stopformula \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------