Re: Math and bold font

["Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o." <LPr@pontex.cz>]

Hello,

thanks for the example. I can see that:

- In another font(s) (at least in cambria in your example) bold Greek chars are OK.

- \bf in math mode causes chars to become "vertical", i.e. when I want to get slanted chars, I have to call \it or \sl or \bi explicitly. OK, I thought that the "slantedness" is kept by default when switching to bold in math mode, but no problem to switch to slanted/italics font manually.

- But I still have no idea how to "restore" Greek chars when using the *default* bold math font (i.e. when not using \setupbodyfont[<another-font>]. Or do I have to \setup???font[???] explicitly when I want to use Greek bold chars as well?

> IMHO (I'm not expert in context) this depends on used fonts. See for
> example follwoing:
> <example file="ex1.tex">
> \setupbodyfont[cambria]
>
> \starttext
> This is a test.
> $a=\alpha$
> $\bf a=\alpha$
> $\bi a=\alpha$
> \stoptext
> </example>
>
> BTW, I not sure if I use "correct" way to switch fonts in math mode (in
> LaTeX commands to switch fonts are different in text and math mode, and
> I have big LaTex background, so for me this way is unusual :).

NB: I used to work with LaTeX as well - I'm still time-to-time solving "basic things" (like that above) in ConTeXt.

Best regards,

Lukas

>
> P.S. My example works with mkiv but not with mkii. The last uses
> "default" fonts that don't have bold variant for greek letters (I could
> be wrong here, for LaTeX I have to redefine commands for greek letters
> because there is appropriate font but greek letters are defined in a
> way so nobody could use bold variant by default).
>
>
> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov


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