From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25216 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to \bf for math? Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:11:45 +0100 Message-ID: <43CA9061.2040002@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00601150307k69d8a10er89fe149ee8f724ab@mail.gmail.com> <1B2F871A-AFE0-42CF-A17D-1C29D7F0966C@fiee.net> <6faad9f00601150659y7528773du9423ccf07d066bd0@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137350754 19188 80.91.229.2 (15 Jan 2006 18:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jan 15 19:45:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyCsr-0004eS-0u for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:45:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC991286F; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:45:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09293-08-3; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:45:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48A11286D; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:11:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEAE31286D for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:11:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08777-02-2 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:11:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id B330D12869 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:11:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 713 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:22:29 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00601150659y7528773du9423ccf07d066bd0@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25216 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: >Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > >>>What exactly is the ConTeXt alternative to LaTeX's \mathbf (switch to >>>bold or bold italic math fonts)? >>> >>> >>I can't help you here, but did you read http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ >>Bold_Math ? >> >> > >I tried a couple of tricks, but none of them resulted in bold italic iwona. >If I use the default font (cm), \bfm does nothing, \bf and \bi work. > >I'm also able to get the complete formula typeset in bold iwona, but I >don't know how to get something like $-{\bf\nabla}\phi={\bi E}$, where >\phi would be typeset in iwona-light and the rest in iwona-heavy for >example. > > taco is the math expert ... one problem with math is that there are several passes in tex and that the fonts that are set last may influence previous switches (just one set of families, global within a math environments) maybe a way out is something \hbox{\yourboldiwona$...$} another way would be to especially define bf and bi to map onto the iwona instances that you want (for a real mixed functionality we need to patch tex the program) [ok, i can imagine some kind of dynamic family pool, but for that i need some real time and motivation) Hans