From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30014 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Mixed Normal and Bold Math -- Problem with Lucida Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:15:46 +0200 Message-ID: <44D59722.8050603@elvenkind.com> References: <44D2BFEF.80507@nibua-r.org> <6faad9f00608042113o556ad4aat254245b53d23f97c@mail.gmail.com> <44D47F03.7000508@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154848565 29319 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2006 07:16:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 07:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adam Lindsay Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Aug 06 09:16:02 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 1G9crd-0001Zx-7I for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:15:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5B31FE95; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 09:15:56 +0200 (CEST) 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 15635-09; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 09:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC941FE8E; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 09:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485F51FE8E for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 09:15:49 +0200 (CEST) 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 15511-04-2 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 09:15:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 997A71FE8C for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 09:15:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:33472 helo=[10.10.0.3]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1G9crT-0003mh-Bu; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:15:47 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-7.6.20060mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <44D47F03.7000508@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:30014 Archived-At: Hi, Hans Hagen wrote: > > it's a matter of lack of tex families; once we have bold, something else > has to be dropped More precisely, here is the font family setup of ConTeXt \fam 0 math roman (with uppercase greek) 1 math italic 2 math symbols 3 math extension 4 italic 5 slanted 6 bold 7 -- 8 bold slanted 9 bold italic 10 smallcaps 11 typeface (sans serif or typewriter or ..., text font) 12 math symbols a (ams) 13 math symbols b (ams) 14 math symbols c (mathtime script) 15 math symbols d (mathtime greek upright) Only family 7 is really empty, and only 14 and 15 can easily be redefined (\newfamily always returns 15) > 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) 256 families of fonts with 65536 possible characters each, just like in Aleph. > 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) Not sure that would make sense. Font switches in math mode are in fact different from ones in ordinary text. {\sl A} and {\bs A} may well have completely a different meaning. Cheers, Taco