Italic Greek letters in lout

[b***@dei.unipd.it]

Hi everybody,

may I ask if anybody knows how to make italic and/or bold
Greek letters in lout 3.26?

Many thanks, best regards.
Benoit


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[Eric Radman]

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
Hi everybody,
may I ask if anybody knows how to make italic and/or bold
Greek letters in lout 3.26?

The standard PostScript Symbol font doesn't have a bold or italic
version, so first you have to find a Type1 Greek font that has the
variations you need.

Is there a page somewhere that references 8859-x fonts that are known to
work well with Lout?

[b***@dei.unipd.it]

Hi,

may I ask a little help to "find a Type1 Greek font that has
the variations I need", i.e. at least Italic?

I would really need to have Greek italic symbols in my equations...

Thank you so much,
Benoit

PS: In an old user manual I found there was a trick to make
greek italic letters in equation, but it seems not working

Post by Eric Radman

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
Hi everybody,
may I ask if anybody knows how to make italic and/or bold
Greek letters in lout 3.26?

The standard PostScript Symbol font doesn't have a bold or italic
version, so first you have to find a Type1 Greek font that has the
variations you need.
Is there a page somewhere that references 8859-x fonts that are known to
work well with Lout?
--
Eric Radman | http://eradman.com

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[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
may I ask a little help to "find a Type1 Greek font that has
the variations I need", i.e. at least Italic?
I would really need to have Greek italic symbols in my equations...

I don't know of any font that would do the job (and I suspect it would
take extra work to actually use it in `@Math' or `@Eq'), but someone
once posted a PostScript trick to use geometrically slanted Greek
symbols:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.type-setting.lout/812

Unfortunately, the patch is no longer accessible.

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
PS: In an old user manual I found there was a trick to make
greek italic letters in equation, but it seems not working

Which trick are you referring to?

Thanks,
Ludo'.

[b***@dei.unipd.it]

Hi,

Post by Ludovic Courtès

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
PS: In an old user manual I found there was a trick to make
greek italic letters in equation, but it seems not working

Which trick are you referring to?

I am sorry for the late, it took me some time to find it.
In the 3.24 User's Guide, last section of the chapter on Equation,
"An alternative version that uses TEX's fonts":
<<It is possible to gain access to characters in the TEX fonts that
are not accessible directly from @Eq, mainly script capitals and
bold-italic Greek letters.>>

I think italic Greek letters are quite important in producing
scientific documents, since variable and constant need to be
in italic.
This is what I have been told and what I read on scientific
typography, but if anybody has a better idea, please
-please- let me know: this is worrying me, and I do not want to
use LaTeX, only because I cannot make italic Greek letters in lout...

Many thanks, and my best wishes for a happy new year.
Benoît

Post by Ludovic Courtès
Hello,

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
may I ask a little help to "find a Type1 Greek font that has
the variations I need", i.e. at least Italic?
I would really need to have Greek italic symbols in my equations...

I don't know of any font that would do the job (and I suspect it would
once posted a PostScript trick to use geometrically slanted Greek
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.type-setting.lout/812
Unfortunately, the patch is no longer accessible.

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
PS: In an old user manual I found there was a trick to make
greek italic letters in equation, but it seems not working

Which trick are you referring to?
Thanks,
Ludo'.

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[Jeff Kingston]

Post by b***@dei.unipd.it
I think italic Greek letters are quite important in producing
scientific documents, since variable and constant need to be
in italic.

The Greek letters available easily in Lout, from the Adobe Systems
Symbol font, are already italic. They are the characters that one
often sees in mathematics. There really aren't any non-italic
Greek letters.

What's missing from the Adobe font is bold Greek letters, or
it might be better to call them bold-italic Greek letters.
These are quite rare in mathematics.

Jeff Kingston