Re: [NTG-context] math: \text does not scale properly

4 Oct 2012

      Hi Alan,

thanks for your help. That's indeed an option, but not much of a difference to using "\normal" I suppose.

In addition, "\text" has the nice feature of preserving the space character, which makes it very useful for lazy people (of course I can add "\," and friends but...).

Cheers,
Andreas

ConTeXt  ver: 2012.09.25 21:44 MKIV  fmt: 2012.10.1

%%%%%%%%%%%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE %%%%%%%%%%%% 
\setupbodyfont[xits]

\starttext

$f_{\mathrm{text and text}_{\mathrm{text and text}_{\mathrm{text and text}}}}$

$f_{\text{text and text}_{\text{text and text}_{\text{text and text}}}}$

$f_{{\normal text}_{{\normal text}_{\normal text}}}$

\stoptext
%%%%%%%%%%%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE %%%%%%%%%%%% 

Am Oct 4, 2012 um 9:27 AM schrieb Alan BRASLAU:
...
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 09:10:17 +0200
Andreas Mang  wrote:
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Hi there,
As Aditya mentioned in a former posting (*) that "\text{ ... }"
should scale properly when used as super- or subscript, I have
prepared a minimal example to demonstrate that it doesn't. In my
document I have switched from "\text{ }" to "\normal", which works.
Kind regards,
Andreas
ConTeXt  ver: 2012.09.25 21:44 MKIV  fmt: 2012.10.1
%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE
\setupbodyfont[xits]
\starttext
$f_{\text{text}_{\text{text}_{\text{text}}}}$
$f_{{\normal text}_{{\normal text}_{\normal text}}}$
\stoptext
%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE
(*) see "[NTG-context] punctuation vs font switch"
Hello,
I generally use \mathrm{} (maybe this is a leftover from LaTeX
practice), and this works fine.
Alan
\setupbodyfont [xits]
\starttext
$f_{\mathrm{text}_{\mathrm{text}_{\mathrm{text}}}}$
$f_{{\normal text}_{{\normal text}_{\normal text}}}$
\stoptext