Lucida New Math fonts still available?
J P Blevins
jpb39 at MAC.COM
Wed Jul 14 13:00:22 CEST 2004
As it happens, I do have the commercial Adobe set (it came with the
OpenType Lucida Math Std font, along with .pl files). I will look over
the old Lucida metrics from CTAN to see if they are usable as a stop-gap
until the status of the expanded YandY set is resolved.
-Jim
>mimi writes:
>
>> As for getting the fonts anywhere else - the lucida fonts
>> were specially hinted for Y&Y, and cannot be purchased anywhere
>> else.
>
>this is worrying, even if it leaves us who already have copies feeling
>slightly smug...
>
>> There are publicly available lucida fonts on CTAN
>> http://ctan.tug.org/ search for "lucida' ... they just
>> aren't as nice as the ones from Y&Y...
>
>nah -- those aren't the fonts, they're metrics for using the adobe
>version of the fonts, and are (a) painfully old and (b) need the
>commercial adobe set to go with them. (one gets lucida tt fonts with
>m$ operating systems, but i don't know how they relate to the adobe
>fonts.)
>
>:-(
>
>robin
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