From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: old-style numerals and .
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:06:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.t6yohllinx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lk5ce5n3.fsf@calaveras.Stanford.EDU>
Hi,
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:03:12 -0700, Jesse Alama <alama@stanford.edu> wrote:
> I tried switching to nice old-style numerals for a table of contents,
> and found to my chagrin that the periods in the numbers, such as the "."
> in "2.3", get typeset as triangles. You can see the result (verified on
> the live context in the garden) with
>
> \starttext
> {\os 2.3}
> \stoptext
>
> What's going on? How can I get periods rather than triangles?
If you are using pdfTeX, you have to switch to an encoding that uses
oldstyle numerals. This is because the knuthian font with oldstyle is a
special, not general purpose, font, and has triangles where the period
would be etc. You have to activate oldstyle globally for any but the most
narrow purposes.
Something like the following
\usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern
typescript
\usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[reset]
\setupbodyfont[modern,11pt]
used to work in mkii (pdftex + context) but I don't know if it still does
-- mkii support for oldstyle has not been a stable feature (due to the
changes from cm to lm): I had to recalibrate every couple of years or so.
So try and see.
If you use luatex then there are a couple of ways to activate it -- see
this thread
http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/20080102.025610.93a30bce.en.html#20080102.025610.93a30bce
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080102.025610.93a30bce.en.html
==========================================
% engine=luatex
\definefontfeature
[oldstyle]
[mode=node,language=dflt,script=latn,onum=yes,tnum=yes]
\setfontfeature{oldstyle}
\starttext
1234567890
\stoptext
==========================================
Best wishes
Idris
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 3:03 Jesse Alama
2008-02-23 5:06 ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2008-02-28 0:29 ` Jesse Alama
2008-02-28 1:37 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-02-24 20:15 ` Hans Hagen
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