From: Michael Murphy <murphy.md@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: hbar (and probably some other symbols) doesn't work in latest beta
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:33:24 +0000 [thread overview]
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Well actually the last remark makes sense: I should have done
\let\hbar\hslash
On 8 January 2013 19:37, Michael Murphy <murphy.md@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> thanks for your responses.
>
> @Hans: yes, hbar is extremely common in quantum physics, in fact I'd go as
> far to say as ubiquitous. It might be considered strange that the glyph
> doesn't exist, but it's actually defined in TeX as a ligature:
>
> \def\hbar{{\mathchar'26\mkern-9muh}
>
> I tried defining this but it doesn't work: I still get nothing.
>
> As it happens, \hslash seems to work fine, and in my opinion is a suitable
> substitute so I will just
>
> \def\hbar\hslash
>
> (although actually that didn't work, I had to do \def\hbar{\hslash} for
> some reason or I got an error in some tikz code I wrote).
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Murphy
> murphy.md@gmail.com
>
>
> On Saturday, 5 January 2013 at 04:49, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 02:10:50AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > >
> > > It looks like hbar (LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH STROKE 0x127) is not
> > > in the math fonts.
> >
> >
> >
> > \hbar should be a glyph variant of \hslash (U+0210F), according to STIX
> > people, if the font provides such a variant.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Khaled
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-10 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 14:26 Jeong Dal
2013-01-04 6:51 ` Otared Kavian
2013-01-05 1:10 ` Hans Hagen
2013-01-05 4:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-01-08 19:37 ` Michael Murphy
2013-01-10 12:33 ` Michael Murphy [this message]
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2013-01-02 10:44 Michael Murphy
2013-01-02 21:13 ` Otared Kavian
2013-01-02 22:41 ` Michael Murphy
2013-01-03 7:19 ` Otared Kavian
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