Hi Alex, I also noticed that you did not provide new equivalents for the symbol fonts. It would be nice if you could provide the necessary pfb fonts for building a clean version of the "adobe" math font (as an alternative to the standard math font).
Best wishes, --Joris On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Aleksandr Dobkin wrote: > I'm a bit busy with work at the moment, but I will take a look at this in > detail in the next few days. > > I would expect that there would subtle but significant changes to the > metrics. For example, ligatures would be used. It may event be desirable to > scale the fonts so they work better together. > > All the code and files should be available at > > https://gitorious.org/~adob > > - Alex > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Joris van der Hoeven > <vdhoe...@texmacs.org>wrote: > > > Dear Aleksandr, > > > > I am in the mood for starting a (partial?) reorganization of the font > > system, > > so it might be good to have a more in depth discussion on the font issues > > now, > > if you have time for that, of course. > > > > First of all, I would first like to integrate the improved fonts that > > you generated in the standard distribution instead of a plug-in. > > My understanding is that we should start with the fonts in > > Format -> (Font) Name -> Adouble -> * > > > > I have a few questions related to this: > > > > 1) How much change is there in the font metrics? > > Can we use the same tfm files (not changing the line breaking), > > or should we foresee some non backward compatible typesetting changes? > > > > 2) Could you please prepare a patch with a replacement of all adobe fonts > > with your fonts (preferrably keeping the same names, but just > > substituting the fonts; we might change the 'Adobe' menu name > > into something else, if needed)? Please make the patch such that > > it removes all the old fonts and any stuff which is no longer needed. > > > > Next up, I have some plans to implement support for the native Qt fonts. > > I am taking into consideration your code. Or maybe we should have > > something such as a qt_font. I am not sure to what extent we can > > throw out the TeX font mechanisms. For instance, it seems to me that > > backward compatability requires me to keep the existing tfm support. > > Any opinions on this? If we replace all pfb fonts by opentype, > > would you have time to do the necessary conversions? > > What exactly would that buy us (increased quality? more uniformness?). > > > > Best wishes, --Joris > > > > > > ----- > > PS: the following links do no longer work: > > > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/sample3.pdf > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/TeXmacs-fonts.tar.gz > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/sample3.tm > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/native-fonts.patch > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Texmacs-dev mailing list > > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
