X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1263" "Fri" "18" "April" "1997" "14:45:03" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "27" "Re: Alternatives to LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA01229; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:46:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.D3FFBFDA@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:46:57 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 127253 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:46:37 +0200 Received: from mail.nada.kth.se (root@mail.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.92]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id OAA15994 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:46:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.109] (sl100.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.126]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA09461; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:44:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:45:03 +0200 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Alternatives to LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1997 At 09:21 97-04-17, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >> The sorry thing that there are not many math font families to choose >> from, and one idea of the math encoding project was trying to help changing >> that. > >No: the maths font encoding project was just that: a means to sort out >the sorry mess that's arisen with umpteen fonts (from Knuth, the AMS, >Washington, St Mary's Road, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all) each with >their own encodings of small parts of the problem, each independently >encoded, but with some duplicated glyphs. > >The chances of anyone doing more than synthesis are small... If the purpose is only to restructure the math glyphs already available, and nothing else, I cannot see the point of nothering about it at all, because even messy, it is workable. The thing is however, that the set of math glyphs do need suitable extensions; some are already suggested in the new math encoding scheme (lower case of scripts and outlines, arrows package). Some new suggestions came up: slanted/upright script fonts, another more scripty series. Regardless whether that will be a part of the future LaTeX-distribution, the LaTeX math encoding scheme should enable such extension to more easily taking place (as it already does). Hans Aberg