From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Greek letters in math with XeTeX
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:31:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C51B22.60607@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3eb5f5b10809080424m1523146cuca306d325fd05a@mail.gmail.com>
Flavien Lambert wrote:
> Just to understand a bit more : signs like equal are printed inside math
> environment with GFS Didot thanks to \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][GFS
> Didot]. Since GFS Didot ,as a greek font has greek letters, why are these
> glyphs not used ? I suppose that when greek people are using directly alpha
> as a letter (not \alpha), it should take into account the GFS Didot font,
> shouldn' it ?
it's more complex than that ... tex organizes math characters in
families and = and alpha are in different slots there
greek alpha letter is (in mkiv) directly accessing the right glyph in
the font; in mkiv mode it cna be either direct access, or fallback on
math or ...
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-07 20:04 Flavien Lambert
2008-09-08 1:37 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-08 1:45 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-09-08 8:10 ` Hans Hagen
2008-09-08 11:24 ` Flavien Lambert
2008-09-08 12:31 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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2008-09-07 19:15 Flavien Lambert
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