Well, you can make the colon active in math mode and then let it output \colon.
This is a TeX way, I don't know if there's a ConTeXt way for this: \begingroup\lccode`\~=`\:\lowercase{\endgroup \let~}\colon \mathcode`\:="8000 % 2015-07-20 16:40 GMT+02:00, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu>: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Hans Aberg wrote: > >> The LaTeX package unicode-math has an option colon=literal, which makes >> it behave as in math functions (as in example below). Has ConTeXt a >> similar option? > > No. You have to use \colon. > > Aditya > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________