Re: [NTG-context] old-style numerals and .

"Idris Samawi Hamid" writes:

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:03:12 -0700, Jesse Alama wrote:

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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.

It looks like this is more complicated than I thought. What would I do if I wanted old-style numerals just for a table of contents? Currently, my table of contents is set up like so: \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=c,numberstyle={\os},pagestyle={\os}] This produces the triangles for periods, and I think I understand why that is so. What value should go in for the numberstyle key to enable old-style numerals just for the table of contents? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu)