Re: I need bold math italic and symbols

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Zhaopeng Xing wrote:

> 2009/1/6 Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
>
>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Zhaopeng Xing wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks. I also want to know how to make euscript \mathcal like this.
>>> www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SMS/texdoc/*euscript*.pdf
>>>
>>
>> To use euler as your main math typescript, you can use
>>
>> \definetypeface[mainface][mm][math][euler][euler][encoding=texnansi]
>>
>> with an appropriate roman font (usually, I use palatino for text, and
>> artemisia for presentations).
>>
> This method works well for most letters, both bold and italic, but for
> capital Greek \Omega \Gamma etc, bold but upright. Do you know how to make
> these letters in italic?

That is how Euler capital letters are supposed to look. It imitates the 
handwriting of mathematicians, which is upright and not italic. I do not 
know if there is a font that contains italic capital greek letters to 
match euler. If a font exists, it should be possible to use it in ConTeXt.

Aditya
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