New subject: new upload / more math

1 Apr 2022

      Wrong.  The imperial measurement system, may give Europeans a headache, but is NOT obsolete, by any means.  A good chunk of the world use the imperial measurment system and may be required in certain books, depending on a country's standards.    

dh

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Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context  wrote:
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Oh, great work, thank you! (While I keep working with WebCMS and avoid
math...)
And I guess you forgot to mention that you discontinued the support
for non-metric measures like the obsolete inch, except Potrzebie, of
course.
Hraban
Am 01.04.22 um 10:02 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
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Hi,
As most of you know by now, Mikael and I are working on a math
support upgrade. In order to let users keep up we uploaded a new
version. We have been revisioning some of the more obscure
constructs where we have   no clue of usage, like pmod, bmod,
bordermatrix etc, commands that we   took (and reimplemented)
decades ago from plain TeX or AMS TeX, assuming that these are
standards.
In this release, encouraged by the positive response we received
from users regarding the new simplealignment construction, and in
particular regarding the self-explaining sesac, we have decided to
introduced some new constructs. First out is
\startformula
\startxıɹʇɐɯ
   \NC a_1 \NC b_1 \NC c_1 \NR
   \NC a_2 \NC b_2 \NC c_2 \NR
   \NC a_3 \NC b_3 \NC c_3 \NR
\stopxıɹʇɐɯ
\stopformula
for rotation matrices. This was demanded for some advanced math
courses that Mikael teaches. It might inspire users to come up with
demands that suits their own obscure but nevertheless interesting
math.
At some point we realized that, with (also) scientific publishers
(of math journals) moving to MS Word and Indesign, we operate in a
rather peculiar niche and the fact that we use an upgraded and more
granular math engine, made us wonder how to communicate all these
new features and standards that we set. It is for that reason that
from now on we will operate under the CMS umbrella. That
abbreviation stands for ConTeXt Math Society. It has no funny swirly
TeX logo which itself is a statement: in Unicode math script and
calligraphic alphabets are so messed up that it is impossible to
have a reliable and predictable rendering. We go for Dutch and
Swedish simplicity in the spirit of W.N. Lansburgh: back to the
times before TeX was written (1964). There will be no limits and
boundaries set. (Talking math limits and boundaries: these can
already go everywhere anyway, as can fences.)
So, when we mention CMS, we mean serious math business, but
kindergarten math is also embraced! There are no consequences for
users: ConTeXt users with a proven math track record are
automatically a member, but we are not too picky, everyone is
welcome. We don't have honorary members but Taco (the first ConTeXt
math user) and Aditya (the most experienced   one) might consider
themselves as such. Mikael Sundqvist is the chairman, which is a
livelong appointment. (A nice side effect is that with Arthur living
in Sweden too, that gives us a very strong position in the TeX
landscape there.)
So, today's upload is sort of special: welcome CMS (ConTeXt Math 
Shines), goodbye AMS (American Math Second). Of course we're open
for suggestions and it being an open society all voices will be
heard, but only proper (retro) math cf Lansburgh will be honored. Of
course we only listen to ConTeXt users and, as that package is not
supposed to be used for serious math, we don't bother about the few
publishers left that still do math.
Are we done? Not yet. We're in the middle of (colorful and graphic) 
alignment ornaments and after that we're going to expand and improve
multi-line display formulas and equation numbering.
It will be no coincidence that the cover of Landburghs book about
math typesetting has a prominent 'AWE' embedded in a logo with a
lion on top: we hope all users are in awe about what the TeX lion
can do.
Mikael S & Hans H
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