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21 Nov
2012
21 Nov
'12
12:29 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:10:19PM +0100, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
these virtual versions are essentially the body font counterparts with lots of display-modifying tweaks piled on to make them behave like math fonts. These virtual versions were used for a time while the math fonts were in development.
The virtual counterparts are adaptations of the old TFM/Type1 fonts so they look like OpenType math fonts to the engine (so that ConTeXt would move entirely to Unicode/OpenType math while waiting for the real OpenType fonts). Regards, Khaled