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Hello Hans, I wanted to use \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [default] \starttext $\boldsymbol θ$ \stoptext but it seems to fail in mkii and has no influence in mkiv. (The workaround in mkii is to use \theta instead of θ, in mkiv it makes no difference.) 1. Is there any simple patch that could make θ work in mkii? (I'm working with mkii at the moment) 2. I have no idea what to do in mkiv case. Some of symbols (including bold greek) exist is the same font, some don't and might require another ("bolder") font. Maybe fixing the behaviour of \boldsymbol and a few mappings for greek could be enogh to start with. I have tried to enter "MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL THETA" directly with LM, but it didn't work (probably there are some mappings still missing, but it's a bit uncomfortable to type proper mathematical symbols anyway as editor is somehow lacking the characters and keyboard would have to be reconfigured heavily). Mojca
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 15:12, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello Hans,
I wanted to use
\definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [default] \starttext $\boldsymbol θ$ \stoptext
but it seems to fail in mkii
Sorry, I take my word back. It works OK with \boldsymbol{θ}. However the functionality in mkiv still needs to be fixed.
and has no influence in mkiv. (The workaround in mkii is to use \theta instead of θ, in mkiv it makes no difference.)
Mojca
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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
and has no influence in mkiv. (The workaround in mkii is to use \theta instead of θ, in mkiv it makes no difference.)
in mkiv (unicode) we need complete bold fonts .. (or make additional vectors); bold alphabets are part of math in unicode and should work ok but symbols is a 'whole font' issue Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 15:23, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
and has no influence in mkiv. (The workaround in mkii is to use \theta instead of θ, in mkiv it makes no difference.)
in mkiv (unicode) we need complete bold fonts .. (or make additional vectors); bold alphabets are part of math in unicode and should work ok but symbols is a 'whole font' issue
I agree ... there are lots of other symbols. I noticed the "tex-bi" in math-vfu (I'm still looking into beta version). There's no mapping for it, but I guess that it's probably exactly the same as "math-bi". Do you plan to misuse "tex-bi" or to to define mathematics.make_font ( "lmroman10-boldmath" ... ) for bold math then? Mojca
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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 15:23, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
and has no influence in mkiv. (The workaround in mkii is to use \theta instead of θ, in mkiv it makes no difference.) in mkiv (unicode) we need complete bold fonts .. (or make additional vectors); bold alphabets are part of math in unicode and should work ok but symbols is a 'whole font' issue
I agree ... there are lots of other symbols.
I noticed the "tex-bi" in math-vfu (I'm still looking into beta version). There's no mapping for it, but I guess that it's probably exactly the same as "math-bi".
Do you plan to misuse "tex-bi" or to to define mathematics.make_font ( "lmroman10-boldmath" ... ) for bold math then?
currently only math tf is defined (fam 0) and we will also have math bf (fam 1); mostly a matter of definitions but i was not in the mood to figure out all the bold fonts involved/needed Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I have tried to enter "MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL THETA" directly with LM, but it didn't work (probably there are some mappings still missing, but it's a bit uncomfortable to type proper mathematical symbols anyway as editor is somehow lacking the characters and keyboard would have to be reconfigured heavily).
sure, which is why most symbols have names too; i expect lm typewriter to be complete with respect to math some day so thatit can be used for editing ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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