[XeTeX] Help

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.01.2009 um 19:12 schrieb chandrasekhar s:

> I request you to help me out regarding this matter in a Piquant manner
> so that i can understand how i can Unicode in Windows.


I think it's a question of two things: an Unicode capable text editor  
and of fonts providing math symbols. Asana Math in TeX Live 2008 is a  
good choice, then there is the STIX font project that never will get  
finished? MS is providing Cambria Math. There is a third element:  
Unicode introduced the SMP, the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, in  
which mathematical letters and digits appear in the usual four font  
variants and as serif, script, fraktur, double-struck, sans-serif,  
and monospaced versions of Latin and also some versions of Greek.  
Using Unicode you don't need to use TeX math packages and a lot of 8- 
bit fonts with very specific and irregular encodings. OK, there is a  
fourth problem: OpenType fonts have no real and standardised math  
support (like for example kerning or vertical positioning or size  
adjusting). And when you start to use Unicode math a fifth problem  
will show up: your document will not be LaTeX compliant.

Will Robertson is assembling a XeTeX Unicode math package at http:// 
groups.google.com/group/unimath.

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Greetings

   Pete

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