Thanks Mojca, I will study the source and see if I can understand it enough to proceed further. For my purposes, I think a single optical size would be sufficient (at least that would be a good start and enough of a challenge). What happens when --font=mnsymbol is used -- is there some level of font support added, or does it just download the font files? PPN On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 19:08, Peter Park Nelson wrote:
If adding MnSymbol support were only a matter of tedious manual labor, I
That is more or less the case. There is no reason why it should not work with ConTeXt.
The main reason why I never looked into it is that the font offers different optical sizes. And supporting optical sizes is something that complicates matters a lot. If you would be happy with a single optical size, that would be a lot easier.
would be willing to give it a try, but without an understanding of font internals I don't know where to start. Perhaps someone can suggest resources for learning?
Are we talking about MKIV?
ConTeXt sources. math-vfu.lua and other math-*.mkiv/lua files, as well as font-*.mkiv/lua.
You need to define a mapping vector to map from 8bit font to UTF-8. See for example mathencodings["tex-mi"] = { [0x1D6E4] = 0x00, -- Gamma [0x1D6E5] = 0x01, -- Delta in math-vfu.lua or tex/context/fonts/lucida-math.lfg or keep asking questions. There is no manual to explain how to write such vectors.
Also, I see that there are MnSymbol files in http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/fonts/extra/mnsymbol/ but these don't appear to be included in my ConTeXt Standalone installation. Does anyone know about them?
You need an extra switch. I think that --font=mnsymbol should work, but I need to test (there's a chance that it doesn't and I plan to change that anyway).
Mojca
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