Re: \bar missing in euler

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

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> gives just "a". I do not get any bar over "a".

Yup. You seem to be the first to have noticed (or complained), as well.

> This is how eulervm.sty defines these characters for T1 encoding.
> ...

That's the key, though, it apparently pulls in the text accents as well, 
and changes the math definitions depending on the text encoding. That 
seems rather opposite to how ConTeXt *should* work.

> I do not know what is the equivalent of 'operators' family in context. 
> Any idea how to pull them out of the text fonts?

Let's open this up to Hans and Taco: any idea? Much of the finer points 
of \definemathsymbol et al are voodoo to me.

The fourth/sixth arguments of \definemathsymbol insist on a (hex) number 
to be in that slot. Anything else (like \textmacron) is a no-go.

So right now, Euler is limited by the math mechanisms/the encoding of 
the font. I can imagine two "solutions" of differing hack-ish natures:

1) Allow further expansion in \definemathsymbol:
  \definemathsymbol [breve] [accent] [tf] [\textbreve]

2) Do a hack following LaTeX's imperfect lead:
  \definemathsymbol [breve] [accent] [tf] ["15] % for texnansi
   % or
  \definemathsymbol [breve] [accent] [tf] ["08] % for ec
  etc.

Advice?
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