===== Original Message From Taco Hoekwater =====

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Switching to oldstyle is easy:

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But how do I locally switch back to upright? Declaring

I don't think you can, actually. There are no metric files for oldstyle in the latin modern distribution, only an encoding vector (and .map).

So once a map/encoding is defined for a given font/tfm set it cannot be changed by declaring another map; interesting.

The reverse of the old oldstyle trick should work though:

\def\liningfigures#1{\mathematics{#1}}

Yes! I should have thought of that! As always, thnx a million! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523