On Thursday, 11 January 2024 23:04:02 GMT Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > For people producing greek documents who wish to use eqn, > > I did some testing, using the Tinos family of fonts (R, I, > > B, BI) which include greek glyphs and SS font for gropdf. > > The attached pdf shows the results with the different > > fonts colour coded. > > Nice! How did you do the color coding?
Hi Tadziu, Woe is me! masterpdfeditor, a lot of time mouse clicking (and missing) a drop down colour list. > > > If you want to see the slanted versions for alpha and beta, > > it is best to set the family to T and select TinosR as the > > main font. > > But this gives you the Greek characters of the Symbol font. > Since Tinos also has Greek characters, it would be nice to > use the italic Tinos Greek for the math. Could you maybe > try the trick of telling eqn > > chartype "letter" \[*a]\[*b]\[*g]\[*d]\[*e]\[*z] > chartype "letter" \[*y]\[*h]\[*i]\[*k]\[*l]\[*m] > chartype "letter" \[*n]\[*c]\[*o]\[*p]\[*r]\[*s] > chartype "letter" \[*t]\[*u]\[*f]\[*x]\[*q]\[*w] > > at the beginning (in the first EQ/EN pair)? > > > > Attached is my own experiment of using a different Greek font > (GFS Didot) for the math. Unfortunately I do not speak Greek, > so I have no idea whether the text is typeset correctly, > but I think the Greek typeface looks very nice. > > I did the color coding by inserting color commands into > the intermediate output wherever a font change occurred. Brilliant, I wish I had thought of doing that, much easier after I wrote a little perl script. I ran it again with your suggestion, setting the greek symbols to "letter", (first formula only), looks good to me. Cheers Deri > The colors are: > > red: Roman > blue: Italic > green: Symbol > > (The fraction bar is not from a font, but drawn as a line > while the blue color was active.)
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