From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Math symbols in Gentium
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:04:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F7A9D2B4-6147-4931-9E33-11FC67CDAAA5@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070321081310.GA15407@localhost>
Am 2007-03-21 um 09:13 schrieb Kumar Appaiah:
> I have found Gentium to be a nice free alternative font for my
> documents. I was wondering why the Greek symbols don't get used in
> documents which use Gentium. They sem to use the same cmr fonts for
> the math parts. Is it expected to work that way, or is there a way to
> get the Gentium symbols?
>
> My type-sil-gentium.tex has this line, if that's relevant.
>
> \definetypeface[sil-gentium][mm][math][default][default][encoding=
> \defaultencoding]
Only a hint, because nobody answered:
- the definetypeface line (looks like mine...) chooses the "default"
math font, i.e. CM or LM
- Greek characters are always taken from the math font (remember:
normal TeX knows only 256 characters per font)
- I don't know much about math fonts (seldom need them), but I guess
you must create a virtual font that takes Greek from Gentium and the
other symbols e.g. from Euler (IMHO Euler looks softer than CM and
thus fits better with Gentium).
- see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math#Math_Fonts, esp. http://
homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/EulerContext.pdf
I'm not aware of a tutorial (or other simple/compiled docs) about
"how do I create my own math font for ConTeXt".
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-21 8:13 Kumar Appaiah
2007-03-24 13:04 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2007-04-10 15:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
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