* upshaped \textmu
@ 2005-06-09 18:16 Peter Münster
2005-06-10 6:12 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Peter Münster @ 2005-06-09 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
I've just read Taco's comment on the new feature-requests-page on the wiki,
and I wonder how it's done in LaTeX. Isn't there a possibility to use
ec-encoding for the main-font, and for some exceptions such as \textmu
another encoding?
What happens with the following LaTeX-example?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% Does "T1" mean the same as "ec" ?
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\begin{document}
Textmu: \textmu
\end{document}
Cheers, Peter
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* Re: upshaped \textmu
2005-06-09 18:16 upshaped \textmu Peter Münster
@ 2005-06-10 6:12 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-06-10 13:40 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-06-10 16:13 ` Peter Münster
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-06-10 6:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
Peter Münster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just read Taco's comment on the new feature-requests-page on the wiki,
> and I wonder how it's done in LaTeX.
LaTeX in ec encoding (that's what fontenc calls T1) takes the \textmu
from the associated 'text companion' font, which is encoded in 'TS1'.
> Isn't there a possibility to use
> ec-encoding for the main-font, and for some exceptions such as \textmu
> another encoding?
I'd been wrestling with that for a while before I wrote the remark,
but I could not make that work in ConTeXt. Perhaps somebody else
knows. Anyway, I think \textmu (which is probably only used for
denoting 'micro'-units) should preferably be upright in roman text
(and italic in italic text, bold in bold etc) but that is a bit
complicated because it is not available in the ec encoding.
It should be possible to switch the encoding for just a single
command, but I could not figure out how. I tried to do something
like
\def\textmu{{\useecoding[texnansi]\char 181 }}
but that doesn't work.
Taco
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* Re: upshaped \textmu
2005-06-10 6:12 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2005-06-10 13:40 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-06-10 14:05 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-06-10 16:13 ` Peter Münster
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From: Adam Lindsay @ 2005-06-10 13:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Taco Hoekwater said this at Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:12:27 +0200:
>> Isn't there a possibility to use
>> ec-encoding for the main-font, and for some exceptions such as \textmu
>> another encoding?
>
>I'd been wrestling with that for a while before I wrote the remark,
>but I could not make that work in ConTeXt. Perhaps somebody else
>knows.
I really like what Vit did with his Storm font support, and I think it's
probably the way to support "Companion" encodings in general.
<http://typokvitek.com/typokv-download-TeX-en.html>
Basically, he adopts a variant convention in his typescripts (main
encoding, and the companion font is typesynonym'd to main encoding +
suffix [e.g., ec-hoekwater and ec-hoekwater-companion]), and then
defines the extra characters and font \variant[]s of the main encoding.
Pretty clean, in my opinion.
I brought this up with TS1/Companion encodings before on the list, but
got the strong impression people weren't interested. :)
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* Re: upshaped \textmu
2005-06-10 13:40 ` Adam Lindsay
@ 2005-06-10 14:05 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-06-10 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users
Adam Lindsay wrote:
>
> I brought this up with TS1/Companion encodings before on the list, but
> got the strong impression people weren't interested. :)
I didn't care back in the days when we still used a sane default
encoding ;)
Taco
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* Re: upshaped \textmu
2005-06-10 6:12 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-06-10 13:40 ` Adam Lindsay
@ 2005-06-10 16:13 ` Peter Münster
2005-06-11 9:39 ` Peter Münster
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From: Peter Münster @ 2005-06-10 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> I'd been wrestling with that for a while before I wrote the remark,
> but I could not make that work in ConTeXt.
This is, what I'm doing now:
\let\textmuO=\textmu
\def\textmu{{\usetypescript[modern][texnansi]%
\setupbodyfont[modern]\textmuO}}
But it would be better, to have something like this:
\doifbodyfont{lmodern}{% Here I don't know, how to do it...
\let\textmuO=\textmu
\def\textmu{{\usetypescript[modern][texnansi]%
\setupbodyfont[modern]\textmuO}}%
}
Cheers, Peter
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* Re: upshaped \textmu
2005-06-10 16:13 ` Peter Münster
@ 2005-06-11 9:39 ` Peter Münster
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From: Peter Münster @ 2005-06-11 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Peter Münster wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> > I'd been wrestling with that for a while before I wrote the remark,
> > but I could not make that work in ConTeXt.
>
> This is, what I'm doing now:
>
> \let\textmuO=\textmu
> \def\textmu{{\usetypescript[modern][texnansi]%
> \setupbodyfont[modern]\textmuO}}
Oh, no, completely wrong! With this hack, font switching (\it, \bf etc) does
not work anymore...
Peter
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