Re: [NTG-context] handling fonts with missing math

1 Oct 2011


      On 30-9-2011 23:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 19:57, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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On 27-9-2011 19:52, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 19:44, Hans Hagen wrote:
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there is some fall back mechanism that does that but as soon as one
defined
his/her own typescript that can interfere
How should we define trypescripts to avoid interference then?
A typeface definition normally has a matching monospace and math definition
(so: ss + tt + mm or rm + tt + mm or in some cases rm + ss + tt + mm). Of
course some relative scaling has to be considered then.
Do you want to say that we need an explicit definition of LM Math?
Just curious: how much information is missing/how much would would it
be if we would want to create a virtual math font by combining LM +
populating italic/bold/bold italic latin and greek math alphabets from
text font? Would that look horrible because of lack of information
about glyph metrics?
that is relatively easy: just make a lfg file that contains the 
specification (and choose some math font that suits)

my guess is that it will look bad in most cases

we might consider making a sort of generic partial math font (maybe even 
needs to be designed) that sort of fills in the usual bits and pieces 
(root signs, arrows etc) in a way that matches an average font

(we probably need a few weights then)

of course that would only work for not too fancy math

Hans


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