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Re: [Texmacs-dev] New Fonts + Native Font Rendering Patch


From: Joris van der Hoeven
Subject: Re: [Texmacs-dev] New Fonts + Native Font Rendering Patch
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 21:23:17 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

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
> <address@hidden>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
> >
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