From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33943 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Math symbols in Gentium Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:04:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20070321081310.GA15407@localhost> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174741720 28283 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2007 13:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:08:40 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Mar 24 14:08:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HV5z2-0001vS-4W for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:08:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A00202F4; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:08:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00398-08; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:08:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D151202EF; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:04:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A64202EF for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:04:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31465-08-8 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:04:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB23202EE for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:04:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [85.0.79.116] (helo=[10.128.9.3]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1HV5vI1PAE-0006ZZ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:04:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20070321081310.GA15407@localhost> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18IvzXgl/GR0na1pqxKJhAU4/iNas2RmYAL0tv AI+RbC7N1O4LF/OWwYTwp9J5mO3XpCN414jcVMab0JykXGlMTi aMV29ZQGbJa0d5TnEWATjbXEBLPIaAQ X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:33943 Archived-At: 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 --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)