It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure. For me, the problem is now to change the 200+ occurrences of start/stopaligns distributed over dozens of files to the politically correct syntax.
Matthias On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: > The use of & (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long > standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of. > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote: >> Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated >> :( >> >> Matthias >> >> On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: >> >>> On 18-7-2012 00:22, Matthias Weber wrote: >>>> \starttext >>>> \startformula \startalign >>>> v &= u + at \\ >>>> h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ >>>> \stopalign \stopformula >>>> \stoptext >>>> >>>> >>>> ---->> >>>> >>>> ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english >>>> (...) >>>> ! Missing $ inserted. >>>> >>>> system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ >>>> inserted ... >>>> >>>> 1 \starttext >>>> 2 \startformula \startalign >>>> 3 >> v &= u + at \\ >>>> 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ >>>> 5 \stopalign \stopformula >>>> 6 \stoptext >>>> >>>> Thanks - >>> >>> the context way is: >>> >>> \startformula \startalign >>> \NC v \NC = u + at \NR >>> \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR >>> \stopalign \stopformula >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE >>> Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands >>> tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com >>> | www.pragma-pod.nl >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to >> the Wiki! >> >> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / >> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >> webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net >> archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
