Re: Unicode Math - what it is

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> sorry for a stupid question, the unicode math that is about to come
> means formula input using Unicode Math instead of tex commands as suggested
> in
> "Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics"
>
> http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf

No. No in the sense that it's just about support for modern math fonts
(that are about to come). Users should not notice the difference in
general, for example when using "plain" math with LM, Antykwa, TeX
Gyre (px, tx), ...

The answer to your question might as well be a tiny bit of yes because
I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. The side effect of this
transition is also that you should be able to use "mathematical greek
italic alpha" instead of \alpha or α, or mathematical italic letter a
instead of just plain $a$, but I doubt that any sane user would want
to do that by typing those characters directly with a keyboard.

I have an impression that the document (even thoug the page is not
accessible) is about the way to input math in Word. Is there any
feature in TeX (input) that you are missing?

> or use of the Unicode fonts with math ranges in rendering
> the result?

Yes.

> BTW, what are the options for getting a unicode math font?
> Taking one from MS Office 2007? Waiting for Stix fonts (what happened yo
> them, there seems to be a delay fir yunpublihrt reason.?

Stix is not (and probably will not be) supported unless someone else
writes support for those fonts or unless they publish the proper
OpenType version. You can already use Cambria Math or Asana Math in
mkiv with the non-released LuaTeX with ConTeXt beta from Pragma.

Other math fonts (LM, px, tx, ...) are currently remapped to the
proper Unicode range to make them behave as if they were proper
OpenType math fonts. But they still need some testing and fixes.

Mojca
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