Re: Fwd: Re: sharps and flats and Euler (was Re: typo in math-tex)

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

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>>\def\Flat{\symbol[Flat]}
>>\def\Natural{\symbol[Natural]}
>>\def\Sharp{\symbol[Sharp]}
>>
>>Are there any better ways of doing this?
>
>maybe create a symbol set (did you look in symb-*.tex ?) I think some 
>standardization in naming is needed here

I got started by looking at symb-eur.tex. I'll look further for a better
approach.

>in order to get that working the basic math text font should be euler as 
>well;

Sorry. I don't know what exactly you mean by that. Do you mean manually
setting the math roman(?) font to eurm10?

> also, you need to code all you numbers in the source as math, so 
>"about 25 years ago" becomes "about $25$ years ago";

Is this a necessity? I'd prefer my text font's numerals in text, and the
math numerals in formulae.

> euler was made by 
>hermann zapf and used in "concrete math" (nice book by knuth cum suis) 
>combined with concrete romman (afaik no type 1 available)

It's a nice font. I found it matched with Charter really well, and after
that, found that other people on the net seem to agree with me.

I had followed up this email with the attached minimal test. It doesn't
give the glyphs I expect. I've tried all sorts of combinations to try to
trigger the math symbols in math-eul, but I don't get any closer than this.

Cheers,
adam

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