dgreen@arnor.uucp (12/13/90)
Someone has probably asked this before. I haven't seen it though. I want to use postscript italic fonts for the default letters in math mode. I use dvips and its pals psfonts.sty, etc. It doesn't work to say \mathcode`a="0461 \mathcode`b="0462 \mathcode`c="0463 ... (family 4 is where the ps italics go when you include psfonts.sty.), because if you change fonts within math mode, it doesn't do the proper thing. For example, $\min$ will end up in italics instead of roman. The real question: SOMEBODY must have written something that uses postscript letters in math mode. There are all sorts of gotchas in that game, I realize. Probably the correct thing to do is include some special postscript code to do some kind of character mapping, then use all-postscript letters and symbols for families 1, 2, and 3. Or is my idealism running away with me, and no one has yet been so ambitious? ____ \ /Dan Greening IBM T.J.Watson Research Center NY (914) 784-7861 \/ dgreen@cs.ucla.edu Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-0704 CA (213) 825-2266