Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:52:22 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > > Of course, Donald Knuth disagrees with \frac from the point of view > > of the aesthetics of the syntax. > > Are you sure he disagrees? For instance \frac {12} {34} is less code > than { {12} \over {34} } and all over the texbook (and w

Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

On 12/22/2015 8:24 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Wolfgang, Can you explain to us why it should be preferable for ConTeXt users to employ \frac12 rather than the native TeX construction {1\over 2}? I understand that the macro \frac does some additional trickery but the two constructions should *always*

Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

Hans Hagen 23. Dezember 2015 um 10:17 On 12/23/2015 3:19 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: So it it a TeX programming limitation. The risk of leading to an exponential number of branches is addressed by Knuth at the beginning of Chapter 17 of the TeXbook (p. 139): "Mathematicians te

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word space in bibliographies

Thanks, Wolfgang. It does indeed! Season’s Best, Alan On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Wolfgang Schuster < schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alan Bowen > 17. Dezember 2015 um 18:06 > The appended code is supposed to allow reduction of the inter-word spacing > in my bibliographies but it

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word space in bibliographies

Alan Bowen 17. Dezember 2015 um 18:06 The appended code is supposed to allow reduction of the inter-word spacing in my bibliographies but it does not. Adjusting the \spaceskip in the setups for [tightspace] does not seem to make any difference. Any suggestions

Re: [NTG-context] Maybe simply, i don't know

Ursula Hermann 17. Dezember 2015 um 16:34 Hello Hans, and so on! When there are different headers and footers in a chapter: 1.header: this is me. I write this in left and right pages. Then comes a subsection in this chapter 1.1header: left side: this is

[NTG-context] Maybe simply, i don't know

Hello Hans, and so on! When there are different headers and footers in a chapter: 1. header: this is me. I write this in left and right pages. Then comes a subsection in this chapter 1.1 header: left side: this is my first chapter, right side : this is the second chapter.

Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

On 12/23/2015 3:19 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: So it it a TeX programming limitation. The risk of leading to an exponential number of branches is addressed by Knuth at the beginning of Chapter 17 of the TeXbook (p. 139): "Mathematicians tend to \quote{overuse} \over when they first begin to typeset

Re: [NTG-context] strange output in math display mode

On 12/22/2015 11:30 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Wolfgang, Can you explain to us why it should be preferable for ConTeXt users to employ \frac12 rather than the native TeX construction {1\over 2}? I understand that the macro \frac does some additional tric