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- From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: Math Fonts
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 12:51:28 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- In-reply-to: bobz@applix.com's message of 28 Dec 92 22:29:53 GMT
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- In article <1682@applix.com> bobz@applix.com (Bob Zabielski [ext 235]) writes:
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- Does anyone know of fonts for setting mathematical
- expressions (which are better specialized for the
- purpose than, for instance, Adobe's Symbol) ??
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- Presumably you are only interested in scalable outline fonts.
- There are several choices, depending on what you are using to typeset.
- If you are using some WYSIWYG program then preety much any font set with
- math symbols may do the job, including
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- Adobe Math Pi 1 - 6
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- available from Adobe, obviously. There is also UniversalGreekPi and
- the old Adobe LucidaMath fonts.
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- If you are using TeX, then the choices are more restricted, since a TeX
- `math font' is much more than a mere collection of interesting glyphs.
- Right now the choices for TeX usable fonts in ATM compatible Adobe Type
- 1 format are:
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- Lucida Bright + Lucida New Math font set
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- BSR (Blue Sky Research) Computer Modern font set
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- AMS (American Mathematical Society) font set
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- LaTeX + SliTeX + Logo font set
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- These are all available in fully hinted ATM compatible Adobe Type 1 form
- from Y&Y, complete with what is needed to use them in TeX.
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- If you don`t need display on screen using ATM, then there is also
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- MathTime
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- available from TeXplorators.
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- There isn't really anything in TrueType form yet. The Lucida Bright Math
- fonts from MicroSoft have a lot of interesting characters. But unfortunately
- they are not usable with TeX. Just for a start, to get calligraphic `A' you
- need to type lower case `d', and the larger delimiters are scaled to half
- size and so on.
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- Disclaimer: respondent has connections with Y&Y
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- Berthold K.P. Horn
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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