Hi Pablo, You may use \text in math formulas as in: \startitemize[packed] \item Valor actual neto: $\text{beneficios} - \text{costes}$. \item Beneficio por euro: $\frac{\text{beneficios}}{\text{costes}}$. \item Beneficio obtenido el primer año. \stopitemize Best regards: Otared

On 3 Dec 2020, at 20:48, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

Dear list,

math is all Greek to me and I’m experiencing issues when typesetting the most basic inline formulas.

\starttext \startitemize[packed] \item Valor actual neto: $beneficios - costes$. \item Beneficio por euro: $\frac{beneficios}{costes}$. \item Beneficio obtenido el primer año. \stopitemize

\startitemize[packed] \item Valor actual neto: $beneficios - costes$. \item Beneficio por euro: $beneficios - costes$. \item Beneficio obtenido el primer año. \stopitemize

\startitemize[packed, columns, two] \item Valor actual neto: $beneficios - costes$. \item Beneficio por euro: $\frac{beneficios}{costes}$. \item Beneficio obtenido el primer año. \stopitemize

\startitemize[packed, columns, two] \item Valor actual neto: $beneficios - costes$. \item Beneficio por euro: $beneficios - costes$. \item Beneficio obtenido el primer año. \stopitemize \stoptext

The issues I’m experiencing are:

1. Kernings around ligatures (fi) are wrong.

2. Is there a way to enable ligatures?

3. Packed works fine with fractions, but packed columns is wrong with them. It adds too much space.

Again, formulas are totally foreign to my work with ConTeXt.

I don’t know whether they are bugs in latest (2020.01.30 14:13) or there is a way to avoid the issues.

Many thanks for your help,

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On 3 Dec 2020, at 20:48, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

math is all Greek to me and I’m experiencing issues when typesetting the most basic inline formulas. … The issues I’m experiencing are:

1. Kernings around ligatures (fi) are wrong.

2. Is there a way to enable ligatures?

3. Packed works fine with fractions, but packed columns is wrong with them. It adds too much space.

Again, formulas are totally foreign to my work with ConTeXt.

When you do not use \text in math mode, it means implicit multiplication, which has special spacing. Operator names use text kerning. For example $sin x$ is implicit multiplication, and $\sin x$ the function "sin" applied to the variable x.

On 12/3/20 8:48 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

[...] 3. Packed works fine with fractions, but packed columns is wrong with them. It adds too much space.

After clearing the issue with text, it seems that fractions add to much space when in list with columns. \showframe\showgrid \starttext list: \startitemize[packed, columns, four] \item $\text{1} - \text{2}$ \item item \item $\frac{1}{2}$ \item item \stopitemize list: \startitemize[columns, four] \item $\text{1} - \text{2}$ \item item \item $\frac{1}{2}$ \item item \stopitemize \stoptext I don’t know whether this is a bug. Many thanks f or your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk