Re: Dash missed in Windows' Times

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:

> Thanks for reply. Who is "mkiv-math-team"

Hans, Taco, Mojca, and me.

> and when it is going to fix it? (I mean days or monthes or years..)

Depends on what is broken. Lack of tex ligatures is most likely due to 
wrong typescripts. For the warning about missing unicode points, are you 
worried about the warning or some missing unicode symbols? Getting rid of 
the warnings is easy :-). Creating a virtual font for all tex fonts that 
has "complete" uniode coverage may take years. If there is a specific 
symbol/symbols that you find missing, that can be done in a day or two.

Right now our focus is on filling up the gaps in LM math virtual font. The 
tx/px vector is slightly different.


> If it's gonna take too long, I would 
> preferably fill the gaps by myself, just tell me where to dig ;)

char-def.lua + math-vfu.lua. For some details see my article on ConTeXt 
math in the current TUGBoat.

The most time conuming part is finding out which symbols lack coverage, 
their location in the tfm file, and their correct unicode location, and 
the convential tex name for it. Actually adding these details to the files 
is relatively straight forward.



>>> >  >  In the latest mkiv beta, dash (--) is not replaced by proper symbol 
>>> if I
>>> >  use standard Windows' Times New Roman. I get two hyphens instead.
>>> >  >  Actually, ConTeXt complains a lot about missed unicode "points". 
>>> Please,
>>> >  see log attached.
>>> >  >  How to fix it?
>>> 
>> the mkiv-math-team simply had no time yet to fill in some of the gaps in
>> the vector for tx / px
>> 
> Regards,
> Vyatcheslav
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