[luatex] some bits of opentype math testing

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Jul 26 19:59:06 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 07:38:12PM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Le 26/07/2010 19:27, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> >> Concerning Asana.{otf,ttf} mixup, Jonathan may be more able than anyone in the
> >> TL team to solve it.
> > 
> > Jonathan already knows about it, and the only possible fix currently is
> > not to have to different versions of the same font, thus why I think
> > this is now up to texlive to decide installing only one version of the
> > font or not.
> > 
> Ok, thanks for the explanation. But XeTeX is not the only engine able to use
> this font. Are there other situations where on version should be preferred over
> the other?

In Windows, GDI renders TTF better than OTF, but this only affects
applications using the OS native font renderer, which I think does not
affect PDF readers (Adobe Reader at least have its own renderer).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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