Re: Italic Greek letters in lout

[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

[email protected] writes:

> 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.

> PS: In an old user manual I found there was a trick to make
> greek italic letters in equation, but it seems not working
> with the new @Math environment.

Which trick are you referring to?

Thanks,
Ludo'.
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