Thanks Mojca, I will study the source and see if I can understand it enough
to proceed further.

For my purposes, I think a single optical size would be sufficient (at
least that would be a good start and enough of a challenge).

What happens when  --font=mnsymbol is used -- is there some level of font
support added, or does it just download the font files?

PPN

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 19:08, Peter Park Nelson wrote:
> >
> > If adding MnSymbol support were only a matter of tedious manual labor, I
>
> That is more or less the case. There is no reason why it should not
> work with ConTeXt.
>
> The main reason why I never looked into it is that the font offers
> different optical sizes. And supporting optical sizes is something
> that complicates matters a lot. If you would be happy with a single
> optical size, that would be a lot easier.
>
> > would be willing to give it a try, but without an understanding of font
> > internals I don't know where to start. Perhaps someone can suggest
> resources
> > for learning?
>
> Are we talking about MKIV?
>
> ConTeXt sources. math-vfu.lua and other math-*.mkiv/lua files, as well
> as font-*.mkiv/lua.
>
> You need to define a mapping vector to map from 8bit font to UTF-8.
> See for example
> mathencodings["tex-mi"] = {
>    [0x1D6E4] = 0x00, -- Gamma
>    [0x1D6E5] = 0x01, -- Delta
> in math-vfu.lua or tex/context/fonts/lucida-math.lfg or keep asking
> questions. There is no manual to explain how to write such vectors.
>
> > Also, I see that there are MnSymbol files in
> > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/fonts/extra/mnsymbol/ but
> these
> > don't appear to be included in my ConTeXt Standalone installation. Does
> > anyone know about them?
>
> You need an extra switch. I think that --font=mnsymbol should work,
> but I need to test (there's a chance that it doesn't and I plan to
> change that anyway).
>
> Mojca
>
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