Many thanks for pointing this out Michel. I must admit that this is proving to be much more complicated than I thought... Reading Hans' "ThisWay" document makes it appear that getting usable bold-faced math fonts is only a few lines of definitions... perhaps I should just look at buying the lucida collection.
For the moment, I've settled on a compromise of using: \definefontsynonym [Fourier-Math-Letters] [futr8t] [encoding=ec] and \definefontsynonym [Fourier-Math-Letters-Bold] [futmib] [encoding=ec] With this I can get bold greek symbols (both upper and lower case) but as you pointed out, operators will be italicized if one isn't careful. Sigh. > Now (one of) the difference between fourier and computer modern is that > capital greek is in the "italic" font not in the operators font. > > This is handled in math-fou.tex: > > \definemathsymbol [Gamma] [alpha] [mi] ["00] > .... In an earlier reply, you suggest that I define: \definefontsynonym [Fourier-Math-Letters-Bold] [futb8t] [encoding=ec] but doing so doesn't work as the capital greek symbols... I'm a little confused why the substitutions defined in math-fou.tex are not applied in this case? I need bold \Gamma and \Xi characters in my equations which is why I began looking at all this. I did read through math-fou.tex and mat-lbr.tex but didn't follow some of the definitions. I don't understand why the \definemathsymbol definitions are not applied in this case? I tried to find insight in math-lbr.tex but just got confused. > Note that futmi, and futmii (or futmib futmiib) are two versions of the > same font (same encoding): the difference is that in futmmii all is > slanted (even greek caps), and in futmii caps are upright (roman and > greek) and lowercase are slanted. I finally realized that when I remembered the existance of \showfont earlier today. This also helped me see where the \definemathsymbol statements in math-fou.tex come from. > If you want command definitions in math-fou.tex to be used even in > boldmath, you must change type-spe.tex by referencing the fou math > collection in boldmath too. I'm not sure I follow. My type-spe.tex contains: \starttypescript [math,boldmath] [fourier] [special] \usemathcollection[fou] \stoptypescript Many thanks for your help. Randall _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
