Re: [XeTeX] Handling of combining and variant selector characters in math

> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/archive/2016/02/05/unicode-math-calligraphic-alphabet.aspx >> >> As explained in the article at least two possible suggestions are >> being considered: adding the new alphabet in a new code block range, >> or defining "variant selector" characters that would

Re: [XeTeX] Handling of combining and variant selector characters in math

I know nothing whatsoever about math, so perhaps I shouldn't even join this discussion, but I am curious. I do have considerable experience in font development and supporting things like the use of combining marks and variation selectors outside of math contexts. I looked in a font editor at

Re: [XeTeX] Handling of combining and variant selector characters in math

On 11 Feb 2016, at 8:06 AM, David J. Perry wrote: > > I looked in a font editor at the font (XITS) that was used to produce the > sample PDF. As far as I can see, it has no support for combining marks or > variation selectors of the sort that I would expect, based

Re: [XeTeX] Handling of combining and variant selector characters in math

On 10 February 2016 at 21:36, David J. Perry wrote: > I know nothing whatsoever about math, so perhaps I shouldn't even join this > discussion, but I am curious. I do have considerable experience in font > development and supporting things like the use of combining

Re: [XeTeX] Handling of combining and variant selector characters in math

Thanks for the reply, Will. On 2/10/2016 4:52 PM, Will Robertson wrote: My understanding here is that Variant Selector acts like a character to produce a difference glyph (analogous to a ligature), so doesn’t need shaping/positioning information. That's true, but the fonts that I am familiar

Re: [XeTeX] Handling of combining and variant selector characters in math

On 2/10/2016 5:34 PM, David Carlisle wrote: Note I was using Khaled's xits-math variant not the original stix version, xits-math has many improvements to the opentype internals. The VS1 combinations in xits-math work for example in firefox. David Thanks, David. I downloaded the XITS fonts