From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/83613 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Math fallback Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:23:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <6441A986-7201-4EBB-89A3-47FE1E9501E2@inradius.net> <51F96E03.7040902@wxs.nl> <51F97C7E.9090302@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375316620 13121 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 00:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 00:23:40 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 01 02:23:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4ggA-0005Up-BS for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 02:23:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0363101EB; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:23:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bSyKqvkYC++W; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:23:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABCB101E8; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:23:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801FF101E8 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:23:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id iWl45pvh5YLP for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98346101E4 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r710NFUN010620 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:23:18 +0200 Original-Received: FROM Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA (Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA [132.206.69.142]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 51F9AA72.322B1.26440 ; Authuser adityam; 31 Jul 2013 20:23:14 EDT In-Reply-To: <51F97C7E.9090302@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0TK7cnfPW - 3e671efce7dd - 20130801 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:83613 Archived-At: 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. 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