[math-font-discuss] How to create one's own math font ?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.12.2005 um 13:39 schrieb Jérémie Bourdon:

> How can I create my own math font (with my handwriting font for 
> example) ?
>

Allô!

One font isn't enough, you'll need a few of them, particularly when 
following the layouts Donald Knuth created. You too could make use of 
NFSS2 and create your own mathalphabets (look into the LaTeX 
Companion).

There is an article by Thierry Bouche: tb59bouc.pdf. Barbara Beeton 
wrote about math fonts and Unicode: tb68beet.pdf.

Alan Hoenig described almost ten years ago his MathKit, and MathInst 
too. Both rely on fontinst.

Others, like Ulrik Vieth, Walter Schmidt, Jörg Knappen, David Carlisle, 
or Diego Puga, created packages like concmath, mathptm, mathpple, 
mathbbold, mathrsfs, mathtime, mathpazo. Paul Pichaureau offers some 
mathdesigns and Michel Bovani developed fourier, based on Adobe Utopia 
and some derived extra fonts. So it shouldn't be that difficult ... 
(psnfss, psnfss-source, and psnfssx could have some extra information)

Mathias Clasen wrote a long article "A new implementation of LaTeX 
math" about his mathfont package (it seems to have left CTAN). It 
reveals a lot about the LaTeX side, although I cannot tell wether it's 
all still true. There is another old report from the LaTeX3 Project 
team by Justin Ziegler, l3d007 (ctan:/tex-archive/info/ltx3pub/), that 
deals with math font encoding. Too I don't know wether changes 
happened. At least it's mentioned on the STIX site -- you should look 
up this site too! Since ten years they're creating a Unicode encoded 
math font for TeX use, restricted to the BMP (Basic Multilingual 
Plane), while "real" math is in the SMP (Supplementary Multilingual 
Plane).

Johannes Küster presented at BachoTeX 2004 "Designing Math Fonts." I 
think it's the most detailed work.

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