thank you, Wolfgang, for your quick reply! This is exactly what I needed!

2011/5/19 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>

Am 19.05.2011 um 13:04 schrieb Julian Becker:

> I'm still having problems migrating from latex to context:
> In latex, I used to write e.g. $\| x \| = 1$, and get two vertical lines on each side of the x. In ConTeXt, the same "\|" is only producing one single vertical line. I tried using "||" and "\parallel", but in both cases the spacing is not as desired. Does anybody know how this is done properly?

\starttext
$\Vert x \Vert = 1$
\stoptext

Wolfgang


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