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% The \end of a \begin,\end pair is problematic,% since \stoptext % depends on TeX's \end. We fix% that as follows, with a slightly edited copyusing the % \everystoptext hook. (Note that some versions of ConTeXt% have already redefined \stoptext from core-job.texend, but this should all work out.

\unprotect\let\therealdocumentend@@end=\end\def\stoptekstappendtoks {\dogloballet\decrementend=\textlevel\relax@@end \ifnum\textlevel>\zerocount \else \theto \everystoptext \expandafter\therealdocumentend \fi}\let\stoptext \stoptekstprotect

Thus, a command such as <tt>\begin{array}</tt> in a LaTeX equation will simply call <{{cmd>|startarray</cmd>}}, and we can define all of the remaining compatibility macros as <tt>\start ... \stop</tt> pairs without needing to translate the equations manually to match. However, this does not work with all ConTeXt environments; a few of them require the literal string <tt>\stopenvironment</tt> at the end of the environment.

There are a number of commands such as <{{cmd>|frac</cmd> }} that are provided in LaTeX but not in the ConTeXt core. Many of these are provided by the [[Math with newmat|newmat]] module; those are documented there.

I should also add: there's a set of code for bold math (text and symbols) in [http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/005314.html this message to the ConTeXt mailing list] and [http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/005315.html its followup here]. This matter is also discussed, perhaps more thoroughly, in [http[magazine://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0005.pdf |ConTeXt Magazine issue #5]].