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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