Flavien Lambert wrote:
Just to understand a bit more : signs like equal are printed inside math environment with GFS Didot thanks to \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][GFS Didot]. Since GFS Didot ,as a greek font has greek letters, why are these glyphs not used ? I suppose that when greek people are using directly alpha as a letter (not \alpha), it should take into account the GFS Didot font, shouldn' it ?
it's more complex than that ... tex organizes math characters in families and = and alpha are in different slots there greek alpha letter is (in mkiv) directly accessing the right glyph in the font; in mkiv mode it cna be either direct access, or fallback on math or ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------