On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

Dear All,

is there a replacement of "hdotsfor" from LaTeX to fill several cells in a matrix row with one long series of dots?

Not that I know of. Currently, you can manually do this using TeX primitives. \starttext \startformula \startmathmatrix \NC a \NC b \NC c \NR \NC \spanomit\spanomit{\dotfill} \NR \NC e \NC d \NC adlsadjsak \NR \stopmathmatrix \startmathmatrix \NC a \NC b \NC c \NR \NC 45 \NC \omit\spanomit{\dotfill} \NR \NC e \NC d \NC adlsadjsak \NR \stopmathmatrix \stopformula \stoptext Hans, can we have a command to do this? Basically, \hdotsfor does two things. Span a specific number of columns and fill them with dots. The spacing between the dots should be configurable. This is how amsmath defines it. \newcommand{\hdotsfor}[1]{% \ifx[#1\@xp\shdots@for\else\hdots@for\@ne{#1}\fi} \newmuskip\dotsspace@ \def\shdots@for#1]{\hdots@for{#1}} \def\hdots@for#1#2{\multicolumn{#2}c% {\m@th\dotsspace@1.5mu\mkern-#1\dotsspace@ \xleaders\hbox{$\m@th\mkern#1\dotsspace@.\mkern#1\dotsspace@$}% \hfill \mkern-#1\dotsspace@}% } I think that in Context, we can have the following. \definemathmatrix[matrix][dotspaces=...] and then in a matrix environment, \DC[3] (dot columns 3) expands to the correct number of \omit and \spanomits. What do you think? Aditya