From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/52777 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Upright math Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:26:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20090907212341.GA13420@khaled-laptop> <20090907221443.GA16371@khaled-laptop> <4AA615D0.6000807@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252420044 23937 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2009 14:27:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:27:24 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Sep 08 16:27:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ml1fA-0001Mv-5c for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2E6C9A9B; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id cXpxHI4Zf2MN; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E1DC9A63; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB14C9A63 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id CcxNJaBJC3fN for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DB1C9A47 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:27:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-76-28-91-31.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [76.28.91.31]) By skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4AA669B7.2BB10.10968 ; Authuser adityam; 8 Sep 2009 10:27:03 EDT In-Reply-To: <4AA615D0.6000807@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:52777 Archived-At: On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> The names \alpha \beta etc are currently hardcoded in char-def. The only >> way to change them is to move mathname="alpha" from 0x1D6FC to 0x03B1. Or >> use \greekalpha, \greekbeta etc (essentially taking the text glyphs). >> >> Hans, we need to think of mechanism to switch between upright and italic >> greek letters for the macros. > >ok. actually, it's not that hard to do, > and i'd also provide an 0x1D6FC -> 0x03B1 and vise versa transformation > then (on unicode chars) As long as there is still some way of getting 0x1D6FC in the output. >... so, you can > start thinking about proper names for the commands (\ugreek, \igreek or so); I would prefer long names, say \uprightalpha, \italicalpha, etc or \mathuprightalpha, \mathitalicalpha Since, the user will usually just type \alpha, the long names should not be a problem. > are there more such up/it things? The differential operator has various conventions (upright, italic), but unicode only provides the double struck version (0x2145, and 0x2146) Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________