Re: Upright math

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:29:04AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> The names \alpha \beta etc are currently hardcoded in char-def. The 
>> only way to change them is to move mathname="alpha" from 0x1D6FC to 
>> 0x03B1. Or use \greekalpha, \greekbeta etc (essentially taking the text 
>> glyphs).
>>
>> Hans, we need to think of mechanism to switch between upright and 
>> italic greek letters for the macros.
>
> ok. actually, it's not that hard to do, and i'd also provide an 0x1D6FC  
> -> 0x03B1 and vise versa transformation then (on unicode chars) ... so,  
> you can start thinking about proper names for the commands (\ugreek,  
> \igreek or so); are there more such up/it things?

I was thinking in a global way to switch upright math on/off, my use
case is that on day when we have Euler OpenType, users can use the font
and switch math to upright symbols globally without altering existing
math formulas.

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer

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