[math-font-discuss] Setting up fonts for TeX maths

[Ulrik Vieth]

Given that you already have a font with all the glyphs in FontForge,
possibly already encoded to Unicode slots, my suggestion would be
to forget about all the old 8-bit font encodings.

Instead it might be easier to create an OpenType math font for use
with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. Both engines will be shipped with TL2010,
and LaTeX macro support for unicode-math will also be included.

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with font editing myself,
but you may be interested to check out, what Khaled Hosny has done
to create a full-featured OpenType math with FontForge starting
from some other fonts providing the raw glyphs.

http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math

Regards,
Ulrik Vieth


On 07/12/2010 10:58 PM, Dr. Clea F. Rees wrote:
> I'm trying to setup support for Irianis ADF in TeX/LaTeX. (Allegedly
> for TL 2010 but that is rather unlikely to happen at this point.)
 >
> I've got one font in postscript type 1 format which contains an
> enormous number of glyphs, many with only unicode names.
>
> A picture of the font is attached. I printed this from fontforge. If
> anybody knows how to produce a more useful table (e.g. one which
> includes the glyph names), please let me know.