[XeTeX] mathspec and MnSymbol

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.11.2009 um 08:13 schrieb Thierry:

> My first question: is there any difference between
> \usepackage{MnSymbol}

I'd presume the statement above would select a VF files based setup  
which uses a large set of PostScript from from PFB files, each via a  
particular font encoding. This should *not* work. If it works, then  
because mathspec overrides MnSymbol. You should be able to check this  
by examining the LOG file (are PFB, ENC, and VF files mentioned in  
it?) and also by checking the fonts used in the PDF output file.  
Mathspec surely uses the OTF variant of the MnSymbol fonts set  
(MnSymbol{5,6,7,8,9,10,12} and MnSymbol-Bold{5,6,7,8,9,10,12}).

> \usepackage{mathspec}
> and
> \usepackage[MnSymbol]{mathspec}?
> Both works for me.


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