Re: Math upright Latin and Greek styles

isn't it specified in TeX using a font selection package instead of the
default one? Also the only upright letters I saw was for inserting normal
text (not mathematical symbols) or comments/descriptions, or when using the
standardized "monospace", or "serif" font (which are not italic by default).

2016-05-16 0:25 GMT+02:00 Hans Åberg <haberg-1_at_telia.com>:

>
> > On 16 May 2016, at 00:05, Murray Sargent <murrays_at_exchange.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hans Åberg mentioned "Changing Basic Latin and Greek to upright does not
> seem practical, due to legacy and lack of efficient input methods."
> >
> > Have to say that it's really easy for the user to switch between math
> upright, italic, bold, and bold italic letters in Microsoft Word by just
> using the usual hot keys as discussed in
> >
> >
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2007/05/30/using-math-italic-and-bold-in-word-2007/
> .
> >
> > This capability has been shipping for over 10 years now. But admittedly
> implementing such input functionality is a little tricky since the
> alphanumerics need to be converted to the desired Unicode Math
> Alphanumerics.
>
> I am not familiar with the product, so it unclear to me whether it it
> produces a UTF-8 text file with the correct Unicode code points, as is a
> requirement for the LuaTeX engine that ConTeXt defaults to. One can design
> a new key map on OS X that selects the correct Unicode code points, but
> that is a huge task, given the large number of math symbols.
>
> The legacy issue is that there are already loads of TeX code that
> translates the Basic Latin into Unicode math italic style. So it is hard to
> break the habit, and old code cannot readily be reused.
>
> And one can ignore the problem altogether, and use the traditional TeX
> backslash “\…” commands, but using Unicode helps the readability of the
> source code. This is even more so in the case of theorem proof assistants.
>
>
>
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