Hi,
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:03:12 -0700, Jesse Alama
I tried switching to nice old-style numerals for a table of contents, and found to my chagrin that the periods in the numbers, such as the "." in "2.3", get typeset as triangles. You can see the result (verified on the live context in the garden) with
\starttext {\os 2.3} \stoptext
What's going on? How can I get periods rather than triangles?
If you are using pdfTeX, you have to switch to an encoding that uses oldstyle numerals. This is because the knuthian font with oldstyle is a special, not general purpose, font, and has triangles where the period would be etc. You have to activate oldstyle globally for any but the most narrow purposes. Something like the following \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern typescript \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt] used to work in mkii (pdftex + context) but I don't know if it still does -- mkii support for oldstyle has not been a stable feature (due to the changes from cm to lm): I had to recalibrate every couple of years or so. So try and see. If you use luatex then there are a couple of ways to activate it -- see this thread http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/20080102.025610.93a30bce.en.html#200... http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080102.025610.93a30bce.en.html ========================================== % engine=luatex \definefontfeature [oldstyle] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=latn,onum=yes,tnum=yes] \setfontfeature{oldstyle} \starttext 1234567890 \stoptext ========================================== Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/