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→Introduction: Mentioned syntax for display and inline math mode already in the introduction.
TeX was designed for ease of typesetting books that contained mathematics. As ConTeXt is built on top of TeX, it inherits all those features. In addition to these, ConTeXt adds lot of macros to make the typesetting of mathematics easier.
There are '''two ''' kind of '''math modes''' --- '''inline math and display math'''. Mathematical expressions that are written with the running text are called inline math; while mathematical expressions that break the flow of the text (such as formulas or equations) are called display math. TeX takes care of proper spacing around expressions and provides macros to typeset most mathematical constructs.
Complicated expressions can be built by working in steps---break down the expression into sub-expressions, build the sub-expressions and then combine them to get the complicated expression.
The basics of typesetting math in ConTeXt is explained here. === Display math mode ===Type <texcode>\startformula ... \stopformula</texcode> to get display math mode. === Inline math mode ===There are three equivalent commands to get inline math mode: <texcode>$ ... $\math{ ... }\mathematics{ ... }</texcode>
=== Note to Plain TeX Users ===
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