[OS X TeX] change letters in math mode?

[Ingo Reich]

Hi Bruno,

Am 21.10.2004 um 10:55 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> Le 21 oct. 04, à 10:19, Ingo Reich a écrit :
>
>> I finally got my Trump Mediaeval fonts working and think about using 
>> them together with my Lucida Bright fonts for math (a good 
>> alternative seems to be the pxfonts). First loading lucida (as usual, 
>> or just lucbmath.sty) and then the Trump Med. fonts however gives a 
>> bit strange looking result, since the roman letters in math mode are 
>> not substituted by the Trump Med. fonts. Somewhat modifying 
>> "lucbmath.sty" I tried to change this, but the result was simply that 
>> not only the (italic) roman letters changed, but also the greek 
>> letters (and maybe some other symbols, I don't really know). Is there 
>> a way (and is it reasonable) to only change the (italic) roman 
>> letters (brackets etc.), but keep the greek ones and the other 
>> symbols (mathematical relations etc.)?
>
> Assuming the font is named "trump", you may try putting in the 
> preamble of your LaTeX file stuff like:
>
> \SetSymbolFont{operators}{normal}{\encodingdefault}{trump}{m}{n}
> \SetSymbolFont{operators}{bold}  {\encodingdefault}{trump}{b}{n}
> \SetMathAlphabet{\mathrm}{normal}{\encodingdefault}{trump}{m}{n}
> \SetMathAlphabet{\mathbf}{normal}{\encodingdefault}{trump}{b}{n}
> \SetMathAlphabet{\mathit}{normal}{\encodingdefault}{trump}{m}{it}
> \SetMathAlphabet{\mathrm}{bold}  {\encodingdefault}{trump}{b}{n}
> \SetMathAlphabet{\mathit}{bold}  {\encodingdefault}{trump}{b}{it}
>
> The Greek letters, corresponding to the math alphabets letters or 
> mathupright, should not be affected.

This does the trick if the letters are embedded in one of the commands 
above. i.e. if I write $\mathit{g}$, it doesn't if I simply write $g$.
Thanks,
Ingo


>
>> And another problem: I'd also like to load a *scaled* version of the 
>> sans serif font  that comes with the lucida package (the 
>> 'hls'-family), but independently from the lucida stylefiles. Any 
>> suggestions?
>
> You'll have to rewrite the corresponding .fd file, for example 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/lucida/t1hls.fd, 
> replacing stuff like
>
> \DeclareLucidaFontShape{T1}{hls}{m}{n}{
> hlsr8t
> }{}
>
> by
>
> \DeclareLucidaFontShape{T1}{hls}{m}{n}{
> s*[0.95] hlsr8t
> }{}
>
> but this might conflict with the [lucidascale], [nolucidascale] and 
> [lucidasmallscale] options defined in 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/lucidabr/lucidabr.sty. 
> Have you tried simply loading the [lucidasmallscale] option?
>
> HTH,
>
> Bruno Voisin
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