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This is probably FAQ stuff but I'm in the middle of the end-of-project frenzy and don't have much time to hunt for an answer (especially when my computer arranged for a full day of extra work by busting the hard disk - at least I now can handily install our TeXLive+ConTeXt publishing system...). I would need a capital Omega. I thought this is a piece of cake and found the command \Omega on the TeX quick reference sheet. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, I just get blank spot in the file. My font settings are: \enableregime[il1] %makes ConTeXt Windows compatible \usetypescript[berry][ec] %magic to make fonts work at all \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] %my chosen fonts and font size Is there a module I should load to get the Greek? Or something I should put around the command? Or is it just the combination of encoding and regime that does this? Help will be deeply appreciated, Mari from Finland (with an end-of-project irritated boss)
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
You could put "math mode" ($\Omega$) around the command. But I am not sure if this will be taken from the default font. At least it is a workaround.
It works beautifully! I knew there must be something like this... The Omega I get is at least from a serif font and to my eye looks just right, so I think it will make the boss happy enough. ;-) Thanks, Mari
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Hello Mari, On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Mari Voipio
writes: Or something I should put around the command?
You could put "math mode" ($\Omega$) around the command. But I am not sure if this will be taken from the default font. At least it is a workaround.
I think, math mode is set up in the typescripts you use. If you use none explicitely, you probably get computer modern (roman in text, math (italic?) in math mode, so they are probably different). For the case you want the same style as in the text, and you know, which font you are using, you can use something like the following to get a table of available characters (to see, whether an Omega is available in your font, and to note its character code) and then use its character code for the macro \getglyph (first argument is the fontname, second the character code). The following gets me an omega with the default font selection (Serif is in this case cmr10): \starttext \showfont[Serif] The character: ''\getglyph{Serif}{10}'' \stoptext -- Holger F. Schoener hfsch@cs.tu-berlin.de
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Holger Schöner
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Mari Voipio
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Patrick Gundlach