Thanks Julius, This would be wonderful. I am using Pagella.
This notation is not widely used, one recent source is _Continued Fractions with Applications_ by Lorentzen and Waadeland. Matthias > On Jun 16, 2026, at 9:47 AM, Julius Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > Agreed with Mikael: normally these "larger operators" are in the font and not > just scaled using a transformation. > > I am happy to (try to) make this for you as long as the font you are using > has a free license. Which math font (or fonts) did you have in mind? Can > you point to some place or places that this operator is used this way in the > existing literature? > > > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 11:20 AM Mikael Sundqvist <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 at 16:54, Matthias Weber <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > I have tried this (copying what is done in math-lop.mkxl) >> > >> > \unprotect >> > \definemathoperator [cfracts] >> > \setupmathoperators [cfracts] [\c!size=\v!auto] >> > \definemathoperator [kb] [cfracts] [\c!left="039A] >> > %\registermathsymbolcommand "039A \kb >> > >> > \protect >> > >> > \starttext >> > \startformula >> > \kb_{i=1}^\infty \frac1i \ne \sum_{i=1}^\infty \frac1i >> > \stopformula >> > \stoptext >> > >> > >> > But the K does not scale for reasons beyond my limited understanding. >> >> No scaling is used for other operators either. For the integral, for >> example, different sizes are used (the font has different sizes) in >> different situations. If the font has an extensible mechanism for it, >> it can grow just as a parenthesis can. But the glyph itself is not >> scaled. >> >> So, the proper solution here is probably to fix/use a font that has >> this operator K (I guess not unicode exists for it), also with a >> larger variant. Letting it scale arbitrarily will probably not look >> good. >> >> /Mikael >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to >> the Wiki! >> >> maillist : [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> / >> https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl >> webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl <https://www.pragma-ade.nl/> / >> https://context.aanhet.net <https://context.aanhet.net/> (mirror) >> archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context >> wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/> >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________
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