Hans van der Meer wrote:
Do I now understand correctly that I MUST use texfont first in order
to work with fonts in ConTeXt? I did not realize that when going over
to the new tetex setup. I guess the typescripts for the lm/cmr fonts
are ready-made in the context distribution?
not for lm and cm, just if you want to use the other free fonts in
whatever encoding
Is there somewhere a script to do this (somewhat painless) for the
"regular" fonts in the teTeX distribution or should I generate just
by hand for whatever font I need?
(2) about math typesetting
Although computer modern (lm fonts) now appear in text, there is
something strange with math. Running the next example coming from the
ConTeXt manual (page 103):
\starttext
{$\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c\ \hbox{whatever} + \sin(2x)$} math\crlf
{$\bf \sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c\ \hbox{whatever} + \sin(2x)$} boldmath BUT
`sin' ISN'T, sqrt NEVER IS \crlf
{$\bf\mf \sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c\ \hbox{whatever} + \sin(2x)$} boldmath
NOW `sin' IS, sqrt NEVER IS \crlf
\stoptext
The second line doesn't show the "sin" in bold as contrasted with the
special remark in the manual. I does show in bold with \mf however.
Has the math behaviour changed meanwhile? Or does it point to still
another flaw in my setup?
The following fonts appear in the pdf (as seen in Adobe Reader):
CMMI12, CMSY10, LMRoman12-Bold (and 9), LMRoman12-Regular (and 9).
this behaviour is ok; \bf switches the text font (using families) and
that's just of of the 16 possible math fonts then; the problem with math
and fonts is that (1) we don't have enough families and (2) using tricks
to bypass that do not help because math fonts come into play at the
second parsing of the math list, when tex knows what it's dealing with;
by then only fam numbers are uses intermediate changing of font
assignments to them has been lost (the last family assignment counts)
in comparison, the following LaTeX example has the right behaviour:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
{$\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c$} math\hfill\break
{\boldmath$\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c + \sin{}x$} boldmath\par
\end{document}
btw, you can use:
$\bfmath \sqrt{a2 + b2} = c\ \hbox{whatever} + \sin(2x)$
a more massive change is:
%D \usetypescript [lucida] [texnansi]
%D
%D \definetypeface [boldmath] [rm] [serif]
%D [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
%D \definetypeface [boldmath] [tt] [mono]
%D [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
%D \definetypeface [boldmath] [ss] [sans]
%D [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
%D \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath]
%D [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
%D
%D \switchtobodyfont[lucida,10pt]
%D
%D \showmathtoken{Gamma} $\Gamma \Delta \alpha \delta \zeta$
%D
%D \switchtobodyfont[boldmath,10pt]
%D
%D \showmathtoken{Gamma} $\Gamma \Delta \alpha \delta \zeta$
Hans
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