parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table
Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a small example which triggers the problem: \starttext< \bTABLE< \bTABLEbody< \bTR< \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD< \eTR< \eTABLEbody< \eTABLE< \stoptext< However, if I replace \math{-} with $-$, the file works. Am I correct that $-$ and \math{-} should be interchangeable? Thanks, Brian
On 9-7-2010 10:12, Brian R. Landy wrote:
Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a small example which triggers the problem:
\starttext< \bTABLE< \bTABLEbody< \bTR< \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD< \eTR< \eTABLEbody< \eTABLE< \stoptext<
However, if I replace \math{-} with $-$, the file works. Am I correct that $-$ and \math{-} should be interchangeable?
side effect of alignmentcharacter that triggers expansion of cell content, so just use $ here ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the reply. I'm actually generating TeX from an application that interprets $ in it's own code and occasionally this causes me trouble in passing the $ through to TeX to use in math mode (I think they have a bug and am hoping I can get that fixed). So I tend to use \math{} to avoid complications with escaping $, but was stuck in this case because I couldn't use $ or \math{}. Anyway, I just now solved my problem in the other application and am able pass through $ appropriately so it's no longer an issue for me. Thanks, Brian On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 9-7-2010 10:12, Brian R. Landy wrote:
Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a small example which triggers the problem:
\starttext< \bTABLE< \bTABLEbody< \bTR< \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD< \eTR< \eTABLEbody< \eTABLE< \stoptext<
However, if I replace \math{-} with $-$, the file works. Am I correct that $-$ and \math{-} should be interchangeable?
side effect of alignmentcharacter that triggers expansion of cell content, so just use $ here
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Brian R. Landy wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I'm actually generating TeX from an application that interprets $ in it's own code and occasionally this causes me trouble in passing the $ through to TeX to use in math mode (I think they have a bug and am hoping I can get that fixed). So I tend to use \math{} to avoid complications with escaping $, but was stuck in this case because I couldn't use $ or \math{}.
With expansion problems, sometimes using \noexpand\math{...} works. Aditya
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