[XeTeX] Lucida New Math and XeTeX

[Axel E. Retif]

On  16 May, 2007, at 03:01, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 16 mai 07 à 09:20, Axel E. Retif a écrit :
>
>> On  15 May, 2007, at 21:18, Will Robertson wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> I don't think Lucida math font support (as called by the lucidabr  
> package) relies on virtual fonts. Virtual fonts are used only for  
> Lucida text fonts, when called with the T1 encoding; if the LY1  
> encoding is called, no virtual fonts are involved at all if I'm not  
> mistaken.

I see. I had thought that only with LY1 it didn't use virtual fonts,  
but that with T1 vf were used also in math.


> Generally with OS X fonts in XeTeX I tend to use Lucida for maths.  
> The Lucida fonts are bolder than Computer Modern, yielding better  
> match with OS X fonts for text.

Yes, indeed! Now XeTeX has become a very nice option to me; if only  
hanging punctuation could be implemented easily, it would be perfect.

Best,


Axel