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
On 11 Feb 2016, at 8:06 AM, David J. Perry wrote:
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> 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 on my non-math
> experience.
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 marks and
> variation selectors
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 w
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 today
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/archive/2016/02/05/unicode-math-calligraphic-alphabet.aspx
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>> 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 forc