[XeTeX] Lucida New Math and XeTeX

Axel E. Retif axretif at igo.com.mx
Wed May 16 09:20:33 CEST 2007


On  15 May, 2007, at 21:18, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 5/16/07, Axel E. Retif <axretif at igo.com.mx> wrote:
>> I was very surprised to find out that Lucida New Math (Lucida TUG
>> distribution) works perfectly well with XeTeX
>
> With the xdv2pdf driver, only *non* virtual fonts will work.

I see. That explains why LucidaNewMath works both with xdv2pdf as  
well as xdvipdfmx ---the Y&Y roots, I presume.

> Don't
> forget that XeTeX does what TeX does, so there's no reason that legacy
> maths fonts shouldn't also work (now...things were a bit different in
> the past).

Last time I had checked this was the case.


> But most maths fonts these days are virtual fonts, so they
> can't be used...unless you use the xdvipdfmx driver, which does
> support them.

But all I checked didn't work so well as Lucida ---many symbols are  
taken from Computer Modern.

Best,

Axel



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