On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, David Arnold wrote:
> Taco, Mojca,
>
> Thanks for the response on lengthening the main fraction bar? Any way
> to make the main fraction bar wider?
>
> There is a genfrac command in amslatex. Anything similar in Context?
m-newmat.tex defines genfrac.
\usemodule[newmat]
\def\bigfrac{\genfrac{}{}{2pt}\displaystyle}
\starttext
\startformula
\bigfrac{100}{200} \text{ vs } \frac{100}{200}
\stopformula
\stoptext
Adjust 2pt to something that suits you.
Aditya
> On Jul 2, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>> David Arnold wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> How can I extend the main fraction bar in the following expression,
>>> making it a tad longer?
>>
>> Just add a bit of whitespace to the right and left:
>>
>> \dfrac{\,\dfrac{9+3x-2x^2}{x^2-16}\,}
>> {\,\dfrac{4x^3-9x}{2x^2+5x-12}\,}
>>
>> You may want to add a \vphantom command as well to separate the
>> fractions from the main bar a bit more.
>>
>>
>> \dfrac{\,\dfrac{9+3x-2x^2}{x^2-16}\,}{\,\dfrac{4x^3-9x}{2x^2
>> +5x-12}\,}.
>>> \placeformula
>>> \startformula
>>> \dfrac{\dfrac{9+3x-2x^2}{x^2-16}}{\dfrac{4x^3-9x}{2x^2+5x-12}}.
>>> \stopformula
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