Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
I have to tiny questions:
1. How do I get small caps [bold] italic (except with the \definedfont[ec-lmxxx])?
No idea.
Same for me. I know that theoreticallu something would be possible using \Var and special typescripts, but I do not know how that is supposed to be done in actual code.
Some catcode trickery might work. This is all I could manage.
This does not work well, because HSO\low{4}\high{-} is not correct.
% \def\molecule#1{\mathematics{ {\rm #1}}}
\bgroup \catcode`\_=\active \catcode`\^=\active \gdef\activatelohi% {\catcode`\_=\active \def_{\low} \catcode`\^=\active \def^{\high}}
% This does not work. Why? % \gdef\molecule#1{\activatelohi #1}
(For educational purposes only, it cannot be used by Mojca this way because of the staggered scripts) Your macro has already parsed the argument. This way \def\molecule#1{{\activatelohi \scantokens{#1}}} it would work (because \scantokens re-evaluates the argument). And this way it does not need etex, nor the \gdef: \def\molecule% {\bgroup \catcode`\_=\active \uccode`\~=`\_ \uppercase{\let~\low}% \catcode`\^=\active \uccode`\~=`\^ \uppercase{\let~\high}% \domolecule }% \def\domolecule#1{#1\egroup}
I have not looked into it, but doesn't one of context's chem module fit this need?
\usemodule[chemic] \let\molecule\chemical It only gets the size right, not the boldnes. But it can be argued that that is the correct behaviour anyways. Cheers, taco