[Cuis-dev] Math symbols and greek letters

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

Yeah, here with Cuis the issue is choosing a font for code, and it has to
include the few extra letters and symbols that we now allow to use in code.
I think, if the font doesn’t include them, we can get them from other font
and make a sort of hybrid, I did that before when we were building fonts
from Pharo and it was fine.

Regarding looks, I’m not sure how I got some weird problems while testing
different fonts today, but now they all look really great and it’s
wonderful to have them, but for now I still prefer DejaVu.

Btw, my image grew to almost 1G after loading the fonts, I’ll make a new
one with only the font I use in a few sizes...


On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 2:23 AM, Andres Valloud via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> 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?
> >>
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