# [NTG-context] Inline math with \int and \sum exhibits nonstandard behaviour

Henri Menke henrimenke at gmail.com
Mon May 13 01:34:19 CEST 2019

To me the following two MWEs look pretty much the same:

\setupbodyfont[10pt] % same font size as LaTeX
\starttext
$\sum_{k=1}^{n} a_k$
\startformula
\sum\nolimits_{k=1}^{n} a_k
\stopformula
\stoptext

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$\sum_{k=1}^{n} a_k$
$\sum\nolimits_{k=1}^{n} a_k$
\end{document}

I tried that with versions of ConTeXt from TeX Live 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019,
as well as the latest beta, all with the same result.

You refer to ma-cb-en page 19, but which of the two equations, the first or the
second one?  Keep in mind that the first one uses

\sum_{n=1}_^{m}

where you are using

\sum\nolimits_{k=1}^{n}

Cheers, Henri

On 11/05/19 7:42 AM, Eric Scmidt wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> So, I have some inline math in my document,and it's looking too big or "airy"; a
> bit like when \nolimits is specified in display mode but smaller. The limits are
> placed next to the symbol when using for example pdflatex, and I prefer this
> tight way for inline math. Is the "airier" way a (new) Context standard or a
> bug, and if it is just a standard how can I achieve the tighter style (could't
> find any pointers anywhere)? At least the latest beta exhibits this behaviour
> (for what it is worth, Context mark IV an excursion by Ton Otten, the version
> produced by LuaTeX-1.06.0 , has the style I want on page 19, and no special
> tricks are discussed). All help is greatly appreciated.
> \starttext
> $\sum_{k=1}^{n} a_k$
> \startformula
> \sum\nolimits_{k=1}^{n} a_k
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> -Eric
>
>
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