Re: Re[2]: Insufficient symbol fonts error

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

Giuseppe—

Actually, it can happen with a very short document too:

\starttext
\grk{\overbar{\grk{kj}} Kull'hnhc d$^{\hbox{\tfx\grk{ou}}}$ med'eonta  
ka`i >Arkad'ihc polum'hlou}

\stoptext

will produce the
     ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts error.

To generalize: all my attempts to enter mathmode when the bodyfont is  
Greek (using one of the fonts in Thomas Schmitz’ Greek module) fail  
because of insufficient symbol fonts.

I wonder if this bears of the fact that in this module the fonts have  
to be defined at every size used in the document. The relevant line  
in type-tasgreek is
\definebodyfont
[30pt,25pt,20pt,18pt,17.3pt,14.4pt,14pt,12pt,11pt,10.5pt,10.1pt,10pt, 
9pt,8pt,7pt,6pt,5pt,4pt]
[rm]

My environment file sets the body font size to 10.1 pt.

Alan

On Oct 30, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> Sunday, October 30, 2005 Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>
>> Giuseppe—
>>
>
>
>> I inserted
>> \usemodule[t-amsl]
>> into the preamble and got the same error message:
>>      ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.
>>
>
>
>> But, when I inserted
>> \usemodule[t-nath]
>> the error message was
>>      !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]
>> which seems much more promising.
>>
>
>
>> Assuming that increasing the input stack is possible and desirable,
>> how do I do it?
>>
>
> Please disregardi this, and remove the two modules. Since it
> seems the 'Missing symbol fonts' problem only happens with a
> big document, try the usual 'divide and conquer method':
> terminate your document right after the formula that gives
> the error, and progressively comment out halves of the
> preceding text until you manage to isolate the chunk of text
> preceding the formula that generates the error.
>
> Example: say that that from \starttext to \stoptext there
> are 300 lines, and that the formula is at the last line.
> Then you comment the first 150 lines and see if the error
> occurs. If it doesn't happen, you uncomment the first 150
> and comment the subsequent 150 (Except for the formula, of
> course). This way you can tell which half causes the error.
> In the uncommented half that causes the error you repeat the
> process (75 lines at a time), then again and again until you
> manage to focus around the shortest document that causes the
> error.
>
> -- 
> Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
>
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