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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: mathbold greek letters
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:49:24 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1009020247150.31344@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinxpbiaTTv4xMvuK91nfTqO2S7_HLsLQULGjfzu@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Chen Shen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First I admit that I've never understood the typescript part of ConTeXt...
> I've been using the following recipe for boldmath.
> The latin letters appears fine in bold italic font, but the greek letters do
> not appear.
> ---------------------------
> \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [modern]
> [encoding=texnansi]
> \setupbodyfont[10pt]
>
> \starttext
> $a b c \alpha \beta \phi$
>
> $\bi a b c \alpha \beta \phi$
> \stoptext
> ---------------------------
>
> Looking at the log file, I found the following error message:
>
> ---------------------------
> Missing character: There is no α (U+03B1) in font LMMath10-Regular!
> Missing character: There is no α (U+03B1) in font LMMath10-Regular!
> Missing character: There is no β (U+03B2) in font LMMath10-Regular!
> Missing character: There is no β (U+03B2) in font LMMath10-Regular!
> Missing character: There is no ϕ (U+03D5) in font LMMath10-Regular!
> ---------------------------

Are you using MkIV? If so, an easier solution will be to use an opentype 
math font, like xits or cambria or asana math. Then you can simply use

$\bf a \alpha$

to get bold math.

Aditya

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-02  6:39 Chen Shen
2010-09-02  6:49 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-09-02  7:51   ` Chen Shen

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