[Cuis-dev] Math symbols and greek letters

[Andres Valloud]

Hey, just to state the obvious here... CMU Concrete is for actual text, 
while the Euler font is for actual math between dollar signs.

On 5/21/20 12:12, Andres Valloud via Cuis-dev wrote:
> I'm using CMU Concrete.  I don't dislike DejaVu, I just like the fonts 
> from Concrete Mathematics better.  I use them all the time for my own 
> things, especially in LaTeX, which is why I thought it was really odd 
> that glyphs were missing.  Maybe it's the TTF that we got, rather than 
> the font itself... I mean, really, \mathbb missing from the fonts Knuth 
> used in (and designed for, with Zapf's help) Concrete mathematics?... 
> there's just no way.
> 
> In somewhat older versions of Cuis, the fonts didn't behave as well and 
> I saw artifacts like the ones you describe.  In more modern versions, 
> things seem better behaved.  If I start seeing things could be improved, 
> I might be tempted to look into fixing stuff.
> 
> On 5/21/20 05:38, Luciano Notarfrancesco wrote:
>> Blackboard bold letters and some math operators, for example, 
>> depending on the font, but the only one that seems to implement almost 
>> all of the unicode math symbols blocks is DejaVu (see 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_symbols_in_Unicode). 
>>
>> Also, DejaVu looks better and it is much more legible to my eyes, I 
>> think there might be some issue with some of the other fonts, or 
>> perhaps I'm just not used to them... for example some of the CMU fonts 
>> leave too much space between lines, unevenly, like the descent is too 
>> much or the line spacing is adding up the descent when it shouldn't, 
>> not sure. Which font do you use with Cuis?
>>