From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43799 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Greek letters in math with XeTeX Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:31:30 +0200 Message-ID: <48C51B22.60607@wxs.nl> References: <3eb5f5b10809071304u2f5f647bwadf26dd072fa6b8@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00809071837r5623b5cas3b3e65b1bf823894@mail.gmail.com> <3eb5f5b10809080424m1523146cuca306d325fd05a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220877262 4697 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2008 12:34:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:34:22 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 08 14:35:16 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kcfxa-0005PY-OO for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:35:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EBF91FF5D; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:34:09 +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 08243-02-6; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:33:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2EB1FC20; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:32:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E2CD1FF1B for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:32:09 +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 06680-02-7 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:31:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554B01FF08 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:31:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 17582-1840426 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:31:27 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <3eb5f5b10809080424m1523146cuca306d325fd05a@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:43799 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________