> \over and \choose are too inconvenient...
I rather thought that was the reason. But I have hundreds of files with many
instances. I started using ConTeXt about the time development was beginning to
shift to MKIV. I had been using TeX since the 1980s. I ported many of my
packages and files from Plain TeX, in part because a large number of Plain TeX
commands worked in ConTeXt at that time. That minimized my work. Like many
normal humans, I did the minimum.
In any case, it would be more convenient for me, at this late stage in my
career, to be able to use and tweak these files. I teach and use them for
class, adjusting them to the moment. I thought if I could go back to the
ConTeXt of sometime in 2022 or 2023 or whatever 202X, then I could continue to
use those files as is.
Thanks again, I appreciate the response.
Michael
FWIW, I wrote a program today to convert strings like “{…\over…}” (my standard
form for \over, etc) to ones like “\frac{…}{…}”. And I’ve figured out macros
for \buildrel and \cases that seem to work for my way of using them. Maybe I’ll
be able to fix all the problems.
> On Aug 31, 2025, at 5:47 PM, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 8/31/2025 9:40 PM, Rogers, Michael K wrote:
>> I update ConTeXt rarely, usually once a year. Some years I forget. I
>> upgraded via TeXLive this summer. The following sorts of things worked
>> before that, and now they don’t:
>> ${x \over y}$
>> ${n \choose k}$
>> ${\buildrel \text{Parts} \over =}$
>> etc.
>> I haven’t discovered how to get back an old enough version in which these
>> things would work. Is it possible?
>
> \over and \choose are too inconvenient for the more advanced math control
> that we now have in lmtx (they were never really advocated) .. can you move
> to \frac and \binom etc instead?
>
> (maybe check out the new math manual)
>
> Hans
>
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