Re: ONE upright beta, please!

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  my whole project is set in Times without problems - except at one spot
>  there is a "beta" needed. Just this single time!
>
>  But, unfortunately, I only get it italic:
>
>  \starttext
>
>  \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding]
>  \setupencoding[default=texnansi]
>  \enableregime[utf]
>  \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]
>
>  $\beta$
>
>  β% same in unicode
>
>  \stoptext
>
>
>  For it is just this one character, used one single time, I don't feel
>  encouraged to start messing around with typescripts.
>
>  Someone can give me a quick(-and-dirty) advice??

The advice would be: find a font with a suitable character and use
something like that:

\loadmapfile[iwona-greek]
\font\iw="greek-iwonar"\iw \char226

The problem is that TeX Gyre fonts do not (yet) ship with greek tfm
files unless I'm mistaken (you can still make tfm file yourself), but
there certainly must be some other suitable font.

Another dirty option:

% engine=luatex
\usetypescript[postscript]
\setupbodyfont[postscript]
\starttext
\startTEXpage
β
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext

and then \includegraphics[beta]. (You probably need to lower the box as well.)

Mojca
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