From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Math fallback
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:07:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F97C7E.9090302@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1307311700240.1111@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On 7/31/2013 11:02 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>>> I too would like to use Neo Euler for math but need some of the missing
>>> glyphs/symbols, like \angle and \triangle. What would the typescript
>>> look like to provide fallback to font for the symbols?
>>
>> complex as original euler already misses many shapes and neo euler is
>> work in progress
>
> That is the reason for my question if the font fallback mechanism can
> work for math fonts also (as it does for, e.g., using different fonts
> for arabic and english). That will be much easier than building a
> virtual font.
it's not that trivial as there are more dependencies and things like
extensible characters and accents and ....
(in fact, a virtual font has to be built, so it's then a wrapper around
a similar vf builder as we already have; one option is to extend the
current one with ranges)
Hans
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2013-07-31 16:53 ` John Kitzmiller
2013-07-31 20:05 ` Hans Hagen
2013-07-31 21:02 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-31 21:07 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-08-01 0:23 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-30 16:55 Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-31 11:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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