Re: Mixed Normal and Bold Math -- Problem with Lucida

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 8/4/06, Renaud AUBIN wrote:
>   
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  I use lucida for a document and now I need some bold math fonts so I have
>> followed the instructions given in "This Way - Mixed Normal and Bold Math".
>> The resulting test file is:
>>     
> ...
>
> Apart from the problem that you have with Demibold:
>
> I guess that bold math is still a weak point of ConTeXt (I might be
> wrong, but last time when I was asking about bold math with iwona, I
>   
it's a matter of lack of tex families; once we have bold, something else 
has to be dropped

i can imagine a setup with bold and normal alongside but no slanted, 
italic, bolditalic then;

the best thing (nowadays) is to have two typefaces defined, one normal, 
and one bold

future versions of context may have more support (soon pdftex will have 
 >16 families)

btw, one of the problems is that several passed over the math list are 
made, which means that font switches are not treated as in text (think 
of \bf test \sl test)

(i dunno if that can be solved in future tex's)

Hans