Small Caps problem with New Baskerville font

[David Ireland]

Thank you Christina.

* Small caps in New Baskerville
The \scshape problem is solved - I was missing the SC & OsF font extension
(so have bought it from Adobe).  Duh!

* \leq & \geq problem
Kopka & Daly say that \leq and \le produce the same symbol (likewise with
\geq and \ge)-- but  they don't!  As your reference suggests, \leq does
indeed appear as \leqslant and \geq appears as \geqslant.  To get what I am
after \le and \ge works.

Thanks very much

David


-----Original Message-----
From: Techsupport-owner at yandy.com [mailto:Techsupport-owner at yandy.com]On
Behalf Of Christina Thiele
Sent: 08 January 2004 15:43
To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject: Re: Small Caps problem with New Baskerville font


David Ireland writes:
>
> I have a document that uses New Baskerville throughout.  I want to set
some
> lines in small caps, but for some reason none of the usual commands --
> \textsc{}, \sc{}, or \scshape{} -- work (DVIWindo just shows normal text).
> The commands DO work if I change the font to Times or CMR.  Could anyone
> tell me what might be the problem?

Have you looked at the .log file to see if there's any mention of font
substitutions or fonts not being available? I wonder if there isn't
also an additional line or two of code that needs to be present
somewhere signalling that the \textsc should be accessing New
Baskerville's sc font ... you do have that installed with not only
.pfm and .pfb but also .tfm files, right?

Also, isn't it {\scshape ... }?

> Also, the math commands \geq and \vggtr both seem to produce the symbol
> identical to \geqslant.  Can anyone offer an explanation of why is this
and
> how can I get \geq or \vggtr to appear correctly?

I'm looking at Scott Pakin's `Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List' and
on p.27, I find the mathabx listing for its inequalities
symbols. There's a footnote there that reads:

   mathabx defines \leqslant and \le as synonyms for \leq, \geqslant
   and \ge as synonyms for \geq, ...

So it looks like you're supposed to get \geq = \geqslant. However, his
list does not include \vggtr, so where's that definition supposed to
be coming from? Perhaps more info is available in the documentation
for the mathabx package -- print it up if you haven't already and
check to see what it has to say ...

> Thanks very much

And I'm flailing here mightily ;-) I'm sure those who actually _use_
math will have a more precise answer for you shortly ;-)

> David
>
>
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Ch.