On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:29:04AM +0200, 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) ... so, > you can start thinking about proper names for the commands (\ugreek, > \igreek or so); are there more such up/it things?
I was thinking in a global way to switch upright math on/off, my use case is that on day when we have Euler OpenType, users can use the font and switch math to upright symbols globally without altering existing math formulas. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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