Message: 5 Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:10:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Aditya Mahajan [ To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] abbreviations as macros Message-ID: [ Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, ivo welch wrote:

If you never need to use a full form of the abbreviation, then you can just use the same in ConTeXt. The equivalent of \ensuremath is \math; everything else is the same.

\define\NPV{\text{NPV\math{_0}}

I would, however, write this slightly differently (even in LaTeX) as

\math{\text{NPV}_0}

but that is just a stylistic issue.

...

Is there a recommended way to do this on conTeXt?

The usual way of defining abbreviations in ConTeXt is

\abbreviation [NPV] {\math{\text{NPV}_0}} {full form}

Then you can use

\NPV\ for a short form of the abbreviation and \infull{NPV} for the full form. The advantage is that you can also get a list of used abbreviations.

Aditya

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