Re: [NTG-context] sharps and flats and Euler (was Re: typo in math-tex)

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:21 AM 1/9/2003 +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:

I believe Adam Lindsay said this around Wed, 8 Jan 2003:

>Now to figure out how to get that symbol to show up within euler. Anyone
>know how to determine the symbols in a given font?

The answer to that last one is \showfont[eurm10], of course. For some
reason I couldn't remember getting that to work, before.

In case anyone is interested, I will document my problem. Because I'm
using Euler as my math font, I can't get at many symbols, including the
musical ones. With my current font definitions, I didn't get much joy
with cmr acting as a fallback in math.

Not really married to the idea of using math mode for music anyway, I do
this instead:
\definesymbol [Flat] [\getglyph{pxmi}{\char91}] % txmi (times) or cmmi10
(cmr)
\definesymbol [Natural] [\getglyph{pxmi}{\char92}] %can be substituted
for pxmi
\definesymbol [Sharp] [\getglyph{pxmi}{\char93}]
\def\Flat{\symbol[Flat]}
\def\Natural{\symbol[Natural]}
\def\Sharp{\symbol[Sharp]}

Are there any better ways of doing this?

maybe create a symbol set (did you look in symb-*.tex ?) I think some standardization in naming is needed here

Now, with Euler math, I'm still not getting the nice euler numerals when
in math mode... I suspect I'm not picking up the math characters in math-
eul, but I have no idea of how to load those definitions. Any clues on
that one?

in order to get that working the basic math text font should be euler as well; also, you need to code all you numbers in the source as math, so "about 25 years ago" becomes "about $25$ years ago"; euler was made by hermann zapf and used in "concrete math" (nice book by knuth cum suis) combined with concrete romman (afaik no type 1 available)

Hans

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