From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/46650 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: I need bold math italic and symbols Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:15:08 +0100 Message-ID: <4964648C.1040709@elvenkind.com> References: <72c60e910901051407w79d693f9kb32ef5bc25d39ed2@mail.gmail.com> <769ba7780901051854l382045d5x7e5b439d47f0dc1d@mail.gmail.com> <72c60e910901060024i5cdbd0a7mac850dac87c8fac8@mail.gmail.com> <72c60e910901061508y15dd8937hfb5c86ef5c3ebc58@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"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231316229 29654 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2009 08:17:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:17:09 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 07 09:18:20 2009 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 1LKTcC-0000wC-Jq for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:18:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5410B1FCF5; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:16:54 +0100 (CET) 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 24771-02; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:15:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168071FCE3; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:15:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DED1FB49 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:15:49 +0100 (CET) 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 24789-01-7 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:15:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B941FCE3 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:15:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.178.26] (boo.demon.nl [82.161.175.147]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n078F8Jf075370 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:15:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from taco@elvenkind.com) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081120) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:46650 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> >> This method works well for most letters, both bold and italic, but for >> capital Greek \Omega \Gamma etc, bold but upright. Do you know how to >> make these letters in italic? > That is how Euler capital letters are supposed to look. It imitates the > handwriting of mathematicians, which is upright and not italic. I do not > know if there is a font that contains italic capital greek letters to > match euler. As you say, the hardwritten appearance is a feature of the euler fonts, and I don't think you can find a matching font elsewhere. Hermann Zapfs design is so distinctive that everything else will look out of place. Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________