Re: Math setup with Times (Termes)

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

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:38, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 19:10, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>>
>>> this line:
>>>   { name = "rtxmi.tfm", vector = "tex-mi", skewchar=0x7F },
>>> might need to become:
>>>   { name = "txmi.tfm", vector = "tex-mi", skewchar=0x7F },
>>
>> This seems to be using txmi.vf (and .tmf) in mkii (I suspect that, I'm
>> not 100% sure).
>>
>> I have no idea whether Hans has already implemented reading the
>> original vf fonts in ConTeXt. I suspect that we need to figure out how
>> exactly those tx fonts work (what slot maps to what glyph in what
>> font).
>
> mkiv will read vf metrics when asked for, but as tx/px is close to default i
> didn't bother looking at it in too much detail

It is close to default, but it uses some vf fonts with all the glyphs
on standard places. On the other hand Polish fonts use just normal
tfm/pfb files.

> if someone wants more complete support .. he/she has to contribute the right
> vectors (in the case of these fonts, i prefer to stay very close to the raw
> font files, i.e. no vf because then we know what we're dealing with)

No vf is fine, but ... can mkiv (at least in theory) read vf files?

How does one disassemble vf files otherwise? vftosomething? I have
absolutely no idea what's in there. If mkiv can read vf, I would at
least cheat in such a way that I would read the font with mkiv, print
out the contents (what slot points to what place) and then rearrange
the contents in some more primitive format that mkiv could be
interpreting in the same way as all the other math fonts.

Mojca
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