From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/13081 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Greek letters? Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:43:50 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030904204256.02ed27c0@server-1> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062702518 28775 80.91.224.253 (4 Sep 2003 19:08:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:08:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Sep 04 21:08:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19uzTA-000308-00 for ; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:08:36 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA58010B82; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:08:33 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C1710B7D for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:45:05 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h84Iit209972 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:44:55 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 6D57C1850F; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 20:44:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2441C18510 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:44:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: Original-References: Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:13081 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:13081 At 14:00 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello Mari, > >On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Mari Voipio 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------