[NTG-context] Commands with arguments before in ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen]

On 6/29/2020 1:06 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Sorry, that was a bit too much oversimplification:
> 
>> On 29 Jun 2020, at 12:36, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
>>
>> In math mode, there *is* an expression state maintained, and that is why \over and \atop work.
> 
> Actually (still oversimplifying), the found commands are saved in a temporary list,
> that is then reprocessed once math mode has ended. And at that stage, an expression tree is built up.
another way to look at it is to think of each {...} being a subformula, so

    {1} \over {2}

are two subformulas combined into one larger subformula

Hans

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