At 07:24 PM 12/7/2002 +0100, you wrote:
def\startalign{% \startformula \let\\\cr \grabuntil{stopalign}\doeqalign } \def\doeqalign#1{\eqalign{#1\cr}\stopformula}
^^ better make that \crcr in order to catch users \\
\let\stopalign\relax
These allow me to write:
\startalign a & = b = \\ & = c \stopalign
isn't \startmathalign a better choice?
and everything is fine. Yet I cannot do
\placeformula[hook] \startalign a & = b = \\ & = c \stopalign
because of expansion problems. Why? How can I define the stuff?
took me a couple of cd's to uncover this -) (1) placeformula has to look ahead, and the next command is not seen as something math; so, (2) i made another lookahead, and then (3) we ran into those \cr & and # things that may not always show up everywhere, so (4) i had to rewrite a low level macro that i didn't like rewriting, i.e. (5) i had to use a variant i'd always thought that could be avoided so, you spoiled my afternoon -) btw, if you isolate/collect the ams math that's not yet in m-newmat, i can see if/how i can add it there in a configurable way, so if some things fails, we can look into it later you can try the version i just uploaded Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------