From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Math fallback
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:23:12 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1307312020080.1111@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F97C7E.9090302@wxs.nl>
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 7/31/2013 11:02 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>>> I too would like to use Neo Euler for math but need some of the missing
>>>> glyphs/symbols, like \angle and \triangle. What would the typescript
>>>> look like to provide fallback to font for the symbols?
>>>
>>> complex as original euler already misses many shapes and neo euler is
>>> work in progress
>>
>> That is the reason for my question if the font fallback mechanism can
>> work for math fonts also (as it does for, e.g., using different fonts
>> for arabic and english). That will be much easier than building a
>> virtual font.
>
> it's not that trivial as there are more dependencies and things like
> extensible characters and accents and ....
Yes, but those are not necessarily needed.
> (in fact, a virtual font has to be built, so it's then a wrapper around a
> similar vf builder as we already have; one option is to extend the current
> one with ranges)
Just having a basic fallback mechanism will be better than having no
fallback. For example Euler has no blackboard black, is missing some
arrows (not extensible ones, just regular arrows) and common symbols.
Aditya
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2013-07-31 16:53 ` John Kitzmiller
2013-07-31 20:05 ` Hans Hagen
2013-07-31 21:02 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-31 21:07 ` Hans Hagen
2013-08-01 0:23 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-07-30 16:55 Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-31 11:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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