From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Math manual
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:18:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d522c105-cc7b-41ec-b2e2-77fc659dfeb9@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACyK-ep4Eq6BGkrSKfmUbY9ToSpwhFCv5ZP+y7ewE=eY3vbg3g@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/16/2024 12:39 PM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
> Hi,
> Thank you for this document which will help many people, including me.
> Quick question : this document seems to have been written in the Pagella
> font : is this correct ? Why this choice : Personal ? The most complete
> and nice font ?
Indeed.
Cambria is the reference of course but Pagella is free and we like it.
We could have gone Lucida but it's not free either (but rather cheap and
we fixed some in the process). Euler is also nice. We also had Bonum for
a while (a bit bolder). Of course most fonts share alphabets. The Xits
font is quite complete but kind of standard boring. We definitely will
never for a can-of-worms sans for a document like this.
That said: all fonts needed tweaks, some more than others, because there
is the inconsistent curious mix of font parameters, traditional and
opentype properties etc to deal with, much of which we published about
in e.g. TB in the process (as well as in documents in the
distribuition). There ars also math companion fonts in the distribition
that fix consistency issues in fonts (we consider most to be frozen).
Concerning complete: many unicode math characters are dubious and we
wonder what they're used for, if at all while some other handy math
symbols are missing.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-16 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-14 7:46 [NTG-context] " Mikael Sundqvist
2024-06-14 10:14 ` [NTG-context] " Alex
2024-06-14 20:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
2024-06-14 21:22 ` Otared Kavian
2024-06-15 14:59 ` Jethro Djan
2024-06-15 15:39 ` Jeong Dal via ntg-context
2024-06-16 10:39 ` Fabrice Couvreur
2024-06-16 11:18 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2024-06-16 16:59 ` skyhorse--- via ntg-context
2024-06-16 17:19 ` Jethro Djan
2024-06-16 17:20 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2024-06-17 15:10 ` Gerion Entrup
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