Thanks. Now I have my own little sacrilege in the environment file.
Matthias
On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:13 PM, "Rogers, Michael K" <mrog...@emory.edu> wrote:
> Here's a backward-compatibility hack that works on your minimal example.
> Maybe it will save the dozens of files without changing all the &s:
>
> \let\oldstartalign=\startalign
> \let\oldstopalign=\stopalign
> \let\oldbs=\\
> \def\startalign{\catcode`&=4\let\\=\cr\oldstartalign}
> \def\stopalign{\oldstopalign\catcode`&=12\let\\=\oldbs}
> \starttext
> This \& that & the other thing:
> \startformula \startalign
> v &= u + at \\
> h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\
> \stopalign \stopformula
> That \& this & yet another thing.
> \stoptext
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Michael
>
> On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Matthias Weber wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
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