From: Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>
Subject: Re[2]: Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern?
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:39:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1937060797.20050708133922@iol.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050708100433.9242@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Friday, July 8, 2005 Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Giuseppe Bilotta said this at Fri, 8 Jul 2005 10:11:01 +0200:
>>Thursday, July 7, 2005 Adam Lindsay wrote:
>>
>>> Me neither, but they look to be of good quality, but of lesser glyph
>>> coverage (lacking AMS symbols) than the PX fonts. That said, the basic
>>> three fonts are 99.8% glyph compatible with the existing PX support.
>>
>>So ConTeXt uses the PX family for math support when Palatino
>>is in use?
> That's my understanding of it, yes.
> Reading more about it yesterday, that does indeed sound non-optimal.
> Can you say what the requirements would be for improving Palatino math
> support would be?
Well, all things considered I would say that augmenting the
mathpazo collection would be the best thing.
> (And have you tried my little typescript hack?)
Yes. It works perfectly, thanks :)
> For those trying to follow along:
> Young Ryu's pxmath:
> * Current ConTeXt choice
> + Complete AMS glyph coverage
> - Some spacing bugs
> - No longer supported, and deprecated in LaTeX world
> Diego Puga's mathpazo:
> * LaTeX's preferred choice (of free fonts)
> + heavily tested spacing
> - only 'basic' math support
> I think some sort of hybrid is possible. Without relying on virtual
> fonts, it would be necessary to make a choice between the two blackboard
> options.
Is it possible to set mathpazo as the default math font for
Palatino, and setting px as the fallback?
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-08 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-06 12:02 Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-06 12:18 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-06 12:56 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-06 13:48 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-06 14:06 ` luigi.scarso
2005-07-06 14:49 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-06 15:04 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-06 16:42 ` luigi.scarso
2005-07-06 17:13 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-06 17:27 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-06 17:35 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-07 5:50 ` Guit luigi.scarso
2005-07-07 7:15 ` Guit Hans Hagen
2005-07-07 7:20 ` Guit Frank Grieshaber
2005-07-07 8:08 ` Guit Hans Hagen
2005-07-07 7:27 ` Guit luigi.scarso
2005-07-08 7:24 ` Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern? luigi.scarso
2005-07-06 14:13 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-06 14:51 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-06 14:39 ` Otared Kavian
2005-07-06 18:18 ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-06 15:40 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-06 17:39 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-06 18:03 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-06 18:17 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-06 20:58 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-06 21:36 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-07 8:50 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-07 12:30 ` modules.pdf : unicode/fonts problems luigi.scarso
2005-07-07 12:44 ` luigi.scarso
2005-07-07 13:03 ` Lutz Haseloff
2005-07-07 13:09 ` Lutz Haseloff
2005-07-07 13:39 ` Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern? Hans Hagen
2005-07-07 19:40 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-08 8:11 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2005-07-08 9:10 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-08 10:04 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-08 11:39 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2005-07-08 12:38 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-08 13:03 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-08 13:14 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-08 13:19 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-07-08 13:24 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-07-08 14:38 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-06 18:12 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
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