Is startalign broken in mkiv?

Matthias Weber

17 Jul 2012 17 Jul '12

10:22 p.m.

\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext ---->> ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted. system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ... 1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext Thanks - Matthias

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Hans Hagen

17 Jul 17 Jul

11:17 p.m.

On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:

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\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

---->>

ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted.

system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...

1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext

Thanks -

the context way is: \startformula \startalign \NC v \NC = u + at \NR \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR \stopalign \stopformula ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Matthias Weber

11:32 p.m.

Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :( Matthias On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:

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\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

---->>

ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted.

system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...

1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext

Thanks -

the context way is:

\startformula \startalign \NC v \NC = u + at \NR \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR \stopalign \stopformula

----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Khaled Hosny

11:41 p.m.

The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:

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Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :(

Matthias

On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:

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\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

---->>

ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted.

system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...

1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext

Thanks -

the context way is:

\startformula \startalign \NC v \NC = u + at \NR \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR \stopalign \stopformula

----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Matthias Weber

18 Jul 18 Jul

1:48 a.m.

It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure. For me, the problem is now to change the 200+ occurrences of start/stopaligns distributed over dozens of files to the politically correct syntax. Matthias On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

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The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:

...
Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :(

Matthias

On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

...
On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:

...
\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

---->>

ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted.

system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...

1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext

Thanks -

the context way is:

\startformula \startalign \NC v \NC = u + at \NR \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR \stopalign \stopformula

----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Rogers, Michael K

3:13 a.m.

Here's a backward-compatibility hack that works on your minimal example. Maybe it will save the dozens of files without changing all the &s: \let\oldstartalign=\startalign \let\oldstopalign=\stopalign \let\oldbs=\\ \def\startalign{\catcode`&=4\let\\=\cr\oldstartalign} \def\stopalign{\oldstopalign\catcode`&=12\let\\=\oldbs} \starttext This \& that & the other thing: \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula That \& this & yet another thing. \stoptext Hope that helps. Michael On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Matthias Weber wrote:

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It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure. For me, the problem is now to change the 200+ occurrences of start/stopaligns distributed over dozens of files to the politically correct syntax.

Matthias

On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

...
The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:

...
Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :(

Matthias

On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

...
On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:

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\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

---->>

ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted.

system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...

1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext

Thanks -

the context way is:

\startformula \startalign \NC v \NC = u + at \NR \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR \stopalign \stopformula

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Matthias Weber

19 Jul 19 Jul

1:37 a.m.

Thanks. Now I have my own little sacrilege in the environment file. Matthias On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:13 PM, "Rogers, Michael K" wrote:

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Here's a backward-compatibility hack that works on your minimal example. Maybe it will save the dozens of files without changing all the &s:

\let\oldstartalign=\startalign \let\oldstopalign=\stopalign \let\oldbs=\\ \def\startalign{\catcode`&=4\let\\=\cr\oldstartalign} \def\stopalign{\oldstopalign\catcode`&=12\let\\=\oldbs} \starttext This \& that & the other thing: \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula That \& this & yet another thing. \stoptext

Hope that helps.

Michael

On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Matthias Weber wrote:

...
It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure. For me, the problem is now to change the 200+ occurrences of start/stopaligns distributed over dozens of files to the politically correct syntax.

Matthias

On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

...
The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:

...
Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :(

Matthias

On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

...
On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote:

...
\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

---->>

ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted.

system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ...

1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext

Thanks -

the context way is:

\startformula \startalign \NC v \NC = u + at \NR \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR \stopalign \stopformula

----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Khaled Hosny

18 Jul 18 Jul

10:38 a.m.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:48:31PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote:

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It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure.

Except that is not the kind of thing ConTeXt users are supposed to mess with, I feel guilty every time I mess with catcodes in my style file. Regards, Khaled

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