Hi, Mikael, Thanks for your kindness, and sorry for my bad English ^_^ I mean I want to type some math formulas with ConTeXt. Since i don't know too much about ConTeXt/TeX, i want to find a manual about this subject and to learn by myself. In the "ConTeXt an excursion"(page 15), it says, "We advise you to do some further reading on typesetting formula in TeX. See for example: The TeXBook by D.E. Kunth The Beginners Book of TeX by S. Levy and R.Seroul " I know that LaTeX(and AMS-LaTeX) has made some extensions to TeX in math typesetting, so I'm wondering if ConTeXt has also made extensions to TeX, or I can only type math formula in the way of basic TeX ? xiaojf Mikael Persson wrote:

On 5/12/05, redox wrote:

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hi all,

I am a newbie of ConTeXt, i'm sorry if my question is foolish.

I have two questions:

1. Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ? There seems no ConTeXt manual focused on mathematica. Or I just need to find a mathematica manual for LaTeX ?

What do you mean by mathematica typesetting? I am sometimes using the Mathematica math fonts. I also wrote somekind of macro that try to immitate Mathematica notebooks, a shot is given at

http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/mma.png

The files for the fonts (the fonts are freely available) can I share without problems, but the macros for the book I can not share (yet at least).

If this did not help in any way, please ask again.

/Micke P

...

2. I'm running TeTeX 2.0.2 on Debian Sarge, and the version of texexec is 3.1 which I think is out of date, so i tried to update ConTeXt.

I downloaded www.pragma-ade.com/context/latest/cont-tmf.zip , and unziped it to /usr/local/share/texmf/, then I ran "mktexlsr" and "texexec --make --all".

But when i ran "texexec --version", the version was still 3.1. It seemed that the texexec wasn't updated.

Thanks in advance!!

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Hans Hagen wrote:

redox wrote:

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Hi, Mikael,

Thanks for your kindness, and sorry for my bad English ^_^

I mean I want to type some math formulas with ConTeXt. Since i don't know too much about ConTeXt/TeX, i want to find a manual about this subject and to learn by myself.

In the "ConTeXt an excursion"(page 15), it says,

"We advise you to do some further reading on typesetting formula in TeX. See for example: The TeXBook by D.E. Kunth The Beginners Book of TeX by S. Levy and R.Seroul "

I know that LaTeX(and AMS-LaTeX) has made some extensions to TeX in math typesetting, so I'm wondering if ConTeXt has also made extensions to TeX, or I can only type math formula in the way of basic TeX ?

\usemodule[math]

or

\usemodule[newmat]

or

\usemodule[nath]

Hans

In the "ConTeXt an excursion"(page 92)(mp-cb-en.pdf), it says, ".... At this moment you can load the following modules: chemic units pictex " I noted that the version of "ConTeXt an excursion" is "May 27, 1999", so I think it's also a little out-of-date. Now my question is, what modules can I use in ConTeXt ? And where can I find detailed descriptions of these modules ?

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Tobias Burnus said this at Sat, 14 May 2005 07:05:44 +0200:

(I have to admit, I cannot find m-math.tex/t-math.tex anywhere.)

I "assumed" Hans meant MathML. :) \usemodule[mathml] The basic math capabilities within ConTeXt do seem poorly documented, mostly because they point to different sources, often in books. However, ConTeXt does use Plain TeX as its model for mathematics. The basics in ConTeXt are roughly equivalent to those described in: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula (I don't know if it will specifically help you, but I note there's a zh version of that page) ...but it takes some practice to spot the things that don't work directly in ConTeXt. Some differences are unimplemented features, some are differing conventions, some are because LaTeX thought they would be useful, and ConTeXt hasn't (yet). Some differences from the examples on that page that I notice immediately: Math is best delimited inline with \formula{ ... }, not $ ... $ Display math is best delimited with \startformula ... \stopformula , not $$ ... $$ \operatorname => \mfunction The double-, triple-, and quadruple-integrals (\iiiint) are undefined in basic ConTeXt's math. The \begin{case} environment needs to be simplified into the Plain \cases{} command. The AMSmath/LaTeX-like: $$ \begin{bmatrix} p & q \\ r & s \end{bmatrix} $$ ...can be interpreted as... \startformula \left[ \matrix{ p & q \cr r & s } \right] \stopformula This might not be the best answer to the original poster, but I do hope it provides a bit of a guide to the general ConTeXt newcomer. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Le 13 mai 05 à 05:18, redox a écrit :

I mean I want to type some math formulas with ConTeXt. Since i don't know too much about ConTeXt/TeX, i want to find a manual about this subject and to learn by myself.

In the "ConTeXt an excursion"(page 15), it says,

"We advise you to do some further reading on typesetting formula in TeX. See for example: The TeXBook by D.E. Kunth The Beginners Book of TeX by S. Levy and R.Seroul "

I know that LaTeX(and AMS-LaTeX) has made some extensions to TeX in math typesetting, so I'm wondering if ConTeXt has also made extensions to TeX, or I can only type math formula in the way of basic TeX ?

The first (only) starting point about math and context is http://contextgarden.net/Math The main AMS environnements are available with amsl module (should be in the recent context distribution, but not with the TeXlive-2004) http://contextgarden.net/Math_with_amsl Giuseppe Bilotta has also port the NATH LaTeX package (NAtural maTHematics) : http://contextgarden.net/Math_with_nath There is not yet documentation and sample about using thes module, but the documentation of there LaTeX LaTeX version is very usefull, Cordialement, Maurice Diamantini,