Re: Capital K as operator like \sum

 Thanks, now I will need some help to get this working in ConTeXt, as I know next to nothing about fonts.

Out of curiosity: I had a look at Pennstander, and it looks great for slides, for instance. But I also couldn’t get it to work in ConTeXt.
Are there instructions/samples I could try?

Matthias

> On Jun 16, 2026, at 9:43 PM, Julius Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Matthias,
> 
> Here you go - please be as critical as you wish/can.   The .otf file has one for inline (unicode E1200) and one for display (unicode E1201).  
> 
> Funny to me how unicode is simultaneously "too little" and "too much"!
> 
> Tested in lualatex because I do not immediately know how to get such a companion font into ConTeXt.   Look at the .lfg files of other fonts, or maybe somebody else on this list is willing to help you.
> 
> Julius
> 
> PS: Pennstander will soon have this as well :-)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM Hans Hagen via ntg-context <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On 6/16/2026 3:47 PM, Julius Ross wrote:
>> > Agreed with Mikael: normally these "larger operators" are in the font 
>> > and not just scaled using a transformation.
>> > 
>> > I am happy to (try to) make this for you as long as the font you are 
>> > using has a free license.  Which math font (or fonts) did you have in 
>> > mind?  Can you point to some place or places that this operator is used 
>> > this way in the existing literature?
>> 
>> An option is to make a what we call companion font, we already have a 
>> few in the distribution so then one doesn't need to patch the original. 
>> These are loaded in lfg files.
>> 
>> Hans
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