On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Thaddäus Töppen wrote:

Hi.

Sometimes I use variables (really rather abbreviations) in math formulas. It seems to me that the letterspacing is a bit too wide then. Maybe math mode thinks I want to multiply the letters as if they were variables for themselves. Is there a way to preserve normal letterspacing locally in a formula?

Latex provides a \mathit macro for such variables. From what I understand, this is essentially the same as using \text{\it ...}. For example: \starttext \startformula \startalign \NC efat \NR \NC \text{\it efat} \NR \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext You could wrap this around in a macro, if you wish (but don't use \mathit, as that is reserved for normal math in context). Aditya