Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On 6/29/06, Taco Hoekwater

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{\bf A test \variant[Caps] in small caps}

Does this work on your computer? (I don't get any caps here.)

No it doesn't, it was a leftover from a failed experiment

Thanks for the magnificent macro! I replaced minus by $-$ and I had to

Does that really look better? You can have bold endashes, but you will not get a bold minus.

remove "[left]" because that one is only good for isotopes such as

ah. i misunderstood that.

It works perfect except in a single case: \title{\molecule{SF_6}}

I had seen that, but not yet bothered to fix it. Still, it is fairly easy to change the macro, try the version below. It only moves a lone subscript because i like ions better if the count and charge are aligned, and I also added an italic correction. It is possible to get everything looking perfect (of course), but that would require spending much more time fine-tuning super- and sub scripts. Positive ions look absolutely awful in latin modern btw. The plus from CM is dead-ugly when used in this fashion. Taco \newbox\chemlowbox \def\chemlow#1% {\setbox\chemlowbox\hbox{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}} \def\chemhigh#1% {\ifvoid\chemlowbox \high{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}% \else \/\lohi{\box\chemlowbox}{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}\fi } \def\finishchem% {\ifvoid\chemlowbox \else \iffluor \fluorfalse \kern-.1em \fi\low{\box\chemlowbox}\fi} \newif\iffluor \unexpanded\def\molecule% {\bgroup \catcode`\_=\active \uccode`\~=`\_ \uppercase{\let~\chemlow}% \catcode`\^=\active \uccode`\~=`\^ \uppercase{\let~\chemhigh}% \dostepwiserecurse {65}{90}{1} {\catcode \recurselevel = \active \uccode`\~=\recurselevel \uppercase{\edef~{\noexpand\finishchem \rawcharacter{\recurselevel}}}}% \uccode `\~=`\F \uppercase{\def~{\finishchem F\fluortrue}}% \catcode`\-=\active \uccode`\~=`\- \uppercase{\def~{--}}% \loggingall \domolecule }%