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The "native" TeX was designed for ease of typesetting books that contained mathematics. As ConTeXt way is built on top of math is MathML - rather verbose but mightyTeX, it inherits all those features. Here's In addition to these, ConTeXt adds lot of macros to make the docs:* [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmlprime.pdf MathML (general)] by Pragma* [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmlexamp.pdf MathML in ConTeXt (examples)] by Pragma* [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xchemml-p.pdf ChemML (MathML extension for chemistry)] ([http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xchemml-s.pdf screen]) by Pragma* [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xphysml-p.pdf PhysML (MathML extension for physics)] ([http://wwwtypesetting of mathematics easier.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xphysml-s.pdf screen]) by Pragma* [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xsteps-p.pdf Steps (XML step charts)] ([http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xsteps-s.pdf screen]) by Pragma* [http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/EulerContext.pdf Euler in ConTeXt (using Euler math font)] by Adam Lindsay

Esp. for physics thereThere are '''two''' kinds of '''math modes'''s the --- '''unitsinline math and display math''' module. 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.

There's a module for chemical structure formulae: '''PPCHTeX''' (works also with LaTeX). It's based on [[Metapost]] and [[MetaFun]]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 four equivalent commands to get inline math mode: <texcode>$ ... $ % TeX style.\m{ ... } \math{ ... } \mathematics{ ... }</texcode> === Note to Plain TeX Users ===ConTeXt is plain TeX compatible. So, if you have any old document written in plain TeX, it will work with ConTeXt. This does not mean that you will get pixel by pixel identical output with ConTeXt. For inline math, everything that you learnt for plain TeX is also true for ConTeXt. However, display math is significantly different. '''Do not use <code>$$ .... $$</code>''' to write display math formulas in ConTeXt, since you will not get the correct spacing around the formulas. Instead use  <texcode>\startformula ... \stopformula</texcode> See [[Math/Display]] for more details on how to use display math in ConTeXt. === Note to AMSTeX/LaTeX Users ===ConTeXt offers almost all the features that are present in AMSTeX and LaTeX. However, ConTeXt syntax is different. See this [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/context-latex-math.pdf My Way] for how to 'translate' from amsmath syntax to ConTeXt syntax. [[LaTeX_Math_in_ConTeXt]] gives some brief ideas on how to get the LaTeX syntax to run in ConTeXt. == The details == === Math symbols ===* [[Math/basic | How to input math]] (binary relations, greek letters, subscripts and superscripts)* Accents* [[Math/stackers | underbrace]], [[Math/stackers | overbrace]]* [[Math/fractions | Fractions, Binomials, genfrac, continued fractions.]]* Delimiters (big, bigg, left, middle, right)* Integrals and Sums* ([[Math/functions|Log like]]) functions* dots* [[Multiline_equations#Cases|Cases]], matrices, bordermatrix* Arrows (see [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/matharrows.pdf Math Arrows])* [[Vectors]]* [[Product integral]] === Display Math ===* [[Math/Display | Formula, formula number]]* [[Multiline equations]] (see [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/mathalign.pdf Using \mathalign and friends])* Math sub-alignment* [[Math spacing]]* Discussion: [[User_talk:Zenlima | summary of formula numbering problems]] (comment: unverified) ==Math Fonts== ''See [[Math fonts]]'' for the main article about this subject. == Other Methods ==* There are two different math modules on [http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/maths/ CTAN], [[Math with nath|nath]] and [[Math with amsl|amsl]]. And there's a [[Math with newmat|new math]] module in the distribution.* Context now has inbuilt support for [[Multiline equations]]* It is also possible to use most [[LaTeX Math in ConTeXt|LaTeX equations in ConTeXt ]] with a relatively small set of supporting definitions; that .* The "native" ConTeXt way of math is discussed in [[MathML]], an application of [[XML]] - rather verbose but mighty. ==Science==* Esp. for physics there’s the [[Units]] module.* Additions to [[MathML]] are PhysML and ChemML.* [[Chemistry]]* There's a module for chemical structure formulae: [[Chemistry|PPCHTeX]] (works also with LaTeX Math ). ==Number Formatting==There's a special command, <cmd>digits</cmd>, with its own manual about formatting numbers, see [http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0003.pdf Pasting digits together] ==Evaluating expressions in ConTeXt==(i.e. ''doing'' math)* See also [[Expressions]] page. [[Category:Math]]