Re: math and palatino

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Hi Aditya,

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:03:44 -0600, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>  
wrote:

> The math fonts compatible with Palatino are px math and math paza ConTeXt
> only has support for px math.

ok, good to know... [I rarely use math these past few years]

>> [Hint:
>> it's not LM] I had to roll my own typescript so what I need to fill in  
>> is the
>> commented line below
>>
>> \definetypeface [pagella_ar] [rm] [serif] [pagella_arabic] %  
>> [pagella_arabic]
>> % \definetypeface [pagella_ar] [mm] [math]  [palatino]       [default]
>>
>> Uncommenting the above gives me an incomplete math font
>
>
> Currently, no math font in mkiv is "complete". Which specific glyphs are
> missing for you?

\alpha

> The easiest opiton is to use asana math, which is an otf math font based
> on px fonts.
>
> \starttypescript [math] [asana] [name]
>      \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [name:Asana-Math]  
> [features=math\mathsizesuffix]
> \stoptypescript
>
> and then
>
> \definetypeface [pagella_ar] [mm] [math]  [asana]       [default]

LuaTeX warning (file  
C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-project/fonts/data/asana/Asana-Math.otf): Type2  
Charstring Parser: Unknown charstring operator: 0x00

!LuaTeX error (file  
C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-project/fonts/data/asana/Asana-Math.otf): Type2  
Charstring Parser: Parsing charstring failed: (status=-1, stack=0)
  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Have any of you run into this before?

If this is a showstopper, then a fallback will have to do. Have any of you  
made fallbacks for math fonts? Are there any subtleties compared to  
regular fonts? What is the unicode slot for math \alpha?

>> that does not look good. Any ideas on getting this right?
>
> I also find px math ugly (although I did use it for my thesis). math pazo
> is not much better, it uses most of the symbols from cm. There is a
> commerical math from micropress that is supposed to be compatible with
> palatino, but I have never used it myself.
>
>> Is there an otf euler option?
>
> No. Also keep in mind that euler is no where close to being a complete
> math font. Mkii used a virtual font that took missing symbols from px
> math and cm.
>
> I have a local half baked support for Euler, which uses missing symbols
> from iwona. I can send the patch if you want to experiment with it.

Thanks! time is very short, although I like Euler and think it would work  
for palatino... maybe we need to get the gyre people on it for the  
future:-)

Best wishes
Idris

-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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