[lucida] AMS symbols, TrueType versions

Thomas Quaritsch t.quaritsch at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 01:00:45 CET 2010


Hi Karl,

Thanks for your very quick answer!

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> CM and Lucida don't go especially well together, but you can do it,
> sure.  There are lots of free math fonts out there.
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/survey.html

I read this survey before, but there is no combination of text+math
font that I really like.

> For all the details of the fonts, you could peruse the metric files, e.g.:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/bh/lucida/fonts/afm/
>
> The LaTeX macro support is also on CTAN, in case you want to look at that:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr/

That already helps me a lot, there seem to be really a great suite of
symbols available.

> No.  At this time, only Type 1 is available from TUG (or PCTeX).

I'm dumb. I can just install the Type1 font in Mac OS X :)

regards,
Thomas



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