# [NTG-context] Inline Fractions

Hans Hagen j.hagen at xs4all.nl
Mon Jan 25 21:55:32 CET 2021

On 1/25/2021 1:58 PM, Johann Birnick wrote:
> Recently inline fractions stopped working correctly.
>
> For example symbol spacing, sub-/superscripts, the line is too short,...
>
> You can see the 3 named problems and how they sometimes appear and sometimes not
> in this two fractions:
>
> \starttext
> $\frac{\sin(x)}{16 \pi \epsilon_0 c^2 m_e^2} \frac{\sin(x)}{\epsilon_0}$
> \stoptext
>
> Compare the output between the current LMTX version with some old version. (I
> compared with mk4, because I had nothing else available. I don't know when bugs
> were introduced.)
I'll check it. We're in a transition to a dual font model in math and
it's kind of tricky to let both do the same but we'll get there
eventually. It also has some consequences for backand code which makes
it even more tricky. But normally, once it does work it keeps working.

Hans

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