[lltx] no µ in UMTypewriter?

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Jul 2 20:32:29 CEST 2012


On 2012-07-01 at 03:25:09 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

 > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:44:49AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
 > 
 > > ------------------------------
 > > \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
 > > \usepackage{fontspec}
 > > 
 > > \begin{document}
 > > \setmonofont{LatinModern Mono}
 > > \texttt{-½-µ-}
 > > 
 > > \setmonofont{UMTypewriter}
 > > \texttt{-½-µ-}
 > > \end{document}
 > > ------------------------------
 > > 
 > > there is no µ in the second line (UMTypewriter) in the output.
 > 
 > There are two "mu"s in Unicode:
 >   U+00B5: MICRO SIGN
 >   U+03BC: GREEK SMALL LETTER MU
 > LatinModern Mono supports the first variant, whereas UMTypewriter
 > the second letter.
 > 
 > Also Ohm/Omega is available in two variants:
 >   U+2126: OHM SIGN
 >   U+03A9: GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA  
 > LatinModern Mono supports both variants and UMTypewriter
 > the Greek letter only.

Thanks, Heiko, this explains a lot.  Seems that it's an oversight
because both variants make sense and according to
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/umtypewriter , it's an extension of Latin
Modern.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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