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From: dgreen@arnor.uucp
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Subject: Postscript characters/symbols in Math Mode?
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Date: 12 Dec 90 20:59:03 GMT
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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?

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