# [NTG-context] Bug in latest beta: behavior of \text in StepCharts

Otared Kavian otared at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 09:04:46 CEST 2015

Hi Hans,

It seems that with the latest beta there is a bug in the way how the command \text is handled in step charts (plesae see the attached PDF).
This bug is absent from mkii, and absent from previous versions of mkiv (up to a weak ago, I believe).

This is a minimal example which shows that the font used in each cell of \text changes randomly (there are four instances of \text, and each time a different font is used…):

%%%% begin random-text-size.tex
\usemodule[steps]

\starttext
\input knuth.tex

\placefigure[none][-]{}{
\startSTEPtable
\cell {$(f\circ u)(x_{*} + o(1)) =$} \text{definition of $f\circ u$}
\cell {$f\left(u\left(x_{*} + o(1)\right)\right) =$} \text {$u$ is continuous}
\cell {$f\left(u(x_{*}) + o(1)\right) =$} \text {$f$ is continuous}
\cell {$f\left(u(x_{*})\right) + o(1) =$} \text {definition of $f\circ u$}
\cell {$(f\circ u)(x_{*}) + o(1)$.}
\stopSTEPtable}

\stoptext
%%%% begin random-text-size.tex
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