On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 10:54, Florent Michel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > Thanks a lot Hans and Mikael for the update! > > On 4/21/2026 22:13 PM, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > > but ... Mikael and I wonder about applications and useability and can't > > come up with real examples. > > Not sure whether it counts as a ‘real’ example, but I have several > documents reporting experimental results with ‘quick and dirty’ error > propagation/analysis. I started playing around with xinterval and it seems > to make at least part of it much easier. > (One alternative option is of course to to the analysis via a different > program and import the result in ConteXt; but from my experience doing as > much as possible from within ConTeXt helps a lot in ensuring the document > and data stay synchronized while keeping the pipeline simple.) > > That's probably quite a niche use-case, but one where xinterval seems to > be genuinely helpful, so thanks again for adding it! > > If you happen to use metapost with xinterval in luametatex (a niche within a niche, I'd say), you could compare the results with metapost mpost -numbersystem=interval based on gmp. It's experimental, though it's been around for a while, so I don't rule out errors. -- luigi
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