Am 28.01.2013 um 21:48 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu>:

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
>>> I'll look into fractions later this week. All the fraction macros of 
>>> ConTeXt were based on \genfrac macro from AMSTeX so, in principle, they 
>>> should behave in the same manner.
>> 
>> The \frac command uses \vcenter for the content while \dfrac and \tfrac only 
>> set the mathstyle before placing the content with the \over primitive.
> 
> Then something has been lost in the MkII -> MkIV transition. I am pretty sure 
> (cannot check right now), that the code in MkII used \genfrac (which is a 
> fancy wrapper around \over \ovewithdelim etc)

Yes, MkII uses \genfrac but in MkIV the command is no longer available and all 
fraction commands have been rewritten.

Wolfgang
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