Re: Re: Greek letters?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 14:00 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello Mari,
>
>On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> > Mari Voipio <mari.voipio@iki.fi> writes:
> > > Or something I should put around the command?
> >
> > You could put "math mode" ($\Omega$) around the command. But I am not
> > sure if this will be taken from the default font. At least it is a
> > workaround.
>
>I think, math mode is set up in the typescripts you use. If you use none
>explicitely, you probably get computer modern (roman in text, math (italic?)
>in math mode, so they are probably different).
>
>For the case you want the same style as in the text, and you know, which
>font you are using, you can use something like the following to get a table
>of available characters (to see, whether an Omega is available in your font,
>and to note its character code) and then use its character code for the
>macro \getglyph (first argument is the fontname, second the character
>code). The following gets me an omega with the default font selection
>(Serif is in this case cmr10):
>
>\starttext
>\showfont[Serif]
>The character: ''\getglyph{Serif}{10}''
>\stoptext

this can be smoothed by:

\definesymbol [omega]  [\getglyph{Serif}{10}]

... \symbol[omega] ...

in symb-*.tex you can see how to define symbols that adapt to the style; 
btw, such glyph calls also automatically scale with the font scaling mechanism


Hans
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