Re: Euler with fallback

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>]

Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> writes:

> This is to announce that the latest beta supports creating virtual math 
> fonts with fallback. The main test case is to use Euler font with missing 
> characters taken from Pagella but the mechanism is general and can be used 
> to replace a specific set of math glyphs from a font.
>
> This feature is not extensively tested. As such it will be useful if 
> everyone interested in math fallback mechanism could test this out and 
> report any bugs or inconsistencies.

I would like to test and hopefully use this setup for _Street-Fighting
Science and Engineering_.  It should also give the setup a thorough
workout.  But I can't quite get the preamble right.

The test file below typesets text and math in palatino.

  \usetypescriptfile[euler-with-pagella]
  \definebodyfontenvironment[10.5pt]
  \setupbodyfont[palatino,10.5pt]

  \starttext

  \input knuth

  \placeformula\startformula
  a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
  \stopformula

  \stoptext

If I add

  \appendtoks \rm \to \everymathematics
  \setupmathematics[lcgreek=normal, ucgreek=normal]

just before \starttext, the math is typeset in roman pagella.

What am I doing silly?

Also, one of my reservations about using Euler for math, which readers
complained about in _Street-Fighting Mathematics_, is that v and \nu
(kinematic viscosity) look so similar.  Do you know any way to make them
more distinguishable, e.g. by substituting a different character?

-Sanjoy


> To use this feature you have to use `pagellaovereuler` as your math font. 
> For example, to use Euler with DejaVu fonts, use:
>
>
> \usetypescriptfile[euler]
> \starttypescript[mainface]
>  	\definetypeface[mainface][rm][serif][dejavu]          [default]
>  	\definetypeface[mainface][ss][sans] [dejavu]          [default]
>  	\definetypeface[mainface][tt][mono] [dejavu]          [default]
>  	\definetypeface[mainface][mm][math] [pagellaovereuler][default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \setupbodyfont[mainface]
>
> \appendtoks \rm \to \everymathematics
> \setupmathematics
>         [lcgreek=normal, ucgreek=normal]
>
>
> There is a built-in typescript `euler-with-pagella` to use 
> `pagellaovereuler` as the math font and `pagella` as the text font.
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