Hi Hans, Nice to hear that the official math fonts are good enough to be the default now! Hans Hagen wrote:
I've changed the defaults for the math fonts so that now we use the 'real thing'. However, as there can be issues, one can still say at the top of a document (of in cont-syst.tex):
\enablemode[txmath] \enablemode[pxmath] \enablemode[lmmath]
Does the following description ring true? If yes, all I need to do is find a place on the wiki to put it. By default, ConTeXt's math font is Latin Modern Math, or Pagella Math/Termes Math if you specified \setupbodyfont[palatino] c.q. \setupbodyfont[times]. There exist also virtual versions of these fonts; these virtual versions are essentially the body font counterparts with lots of display-modifying tweaks piled on to make them behave like math fonts. These virtual versions were used for a time while the math fonts were in development. If you still want to use the virtual fonts, you can write \enablemode[txmath,pxmath,lmmath] at the top of your document. This does not set the math font directly, but specifies that if the Pagella/Termes/LM math font is used, ConTeXt should use the virtual font rather than the non-virtual one. ---- Futher: I see in math-vfu.lua the following comment: "There are still areas where the virtuals are better." Which areas are these?
The design sized latin modern text font is still the default but one could already change that by
\setupbodyfont[modern]
And what would you get instead -- 12pt Latin Modern, or something else? Cheers, Sietse