From: "Zhaopeng Xing" <zpxing@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: I need bold math italic and symbols
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:35:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72c60e910901070335j3c3526ffhbdc28c6e41ccae75@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4964648C.1040709@elvenkind.com>
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Thank you for the information. I can still bear to use upright \Omega.
2009/1/7 Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
> 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
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-07 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-05 22:07 Zhaopeng Xing
2009-01-05 22:36 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-01-06 2:54 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-01-06 8:24 ` Zhaopeng Xing
2009-01-06 14:52 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-01-06 22:18 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-01-06 23:08 ` Zhaopeng Xing
2009-01-07 1:34 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-01-07 8:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-01-07 11:35 ` Zhaopeng Xing [this message]
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