Re: Math setup with Times (Termes)

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> 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.

Since now there are opentype math fonts that compatible with times and 
palatino (xits and asana), can we use them as defaults in mkiv. That will 
make things much simpler.

Aditya

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