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Old 09-06-2019, 06:32 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder View Post
Thanks, that looks like it pretty much has everything.
For the technical details, you'll also want to check out:

Unicode ® Technical Report #25 "UNICODE SUPPORT FOR MATHEMATICS" (PDF)

And since you're familiar with LaTeX, I assume you know about unicode-math? That's about the only way I know of that easily generates a lot of those obscure maths symbols for you.

Side Note: You may also be interested in Will Robertson's (creator of unicode-math) two TUG talks:

TUG 2015: Reconciling unicode-math with LaTeX2e mathematics
TUG 2018: Progress of fontspec and unicode-math

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Originally Posted by AliceWonder View Post
Thank you. In LaTeX I tend to use commercial Lucida Bright or MathTime Pro2 (I paid for both) - but those are Type 1 fonts, I don't know what the TTF/OTF equivalents support. I know Lucida Math fonts in TTF/OTF exist but aren't free, and I doubt mtpro2 would be free (if it even exists outside of LaTeX)
That list is actual OpenType fonts that have the MATH tables in them. This means they're actually usable for all the complex Maths (and I assume MathML).

A bunch of those ol' Type 1 and TeX fonts were all hackishly done. Sure, it worked in PDF and Print where you only care about the finalized LOOK... but absolutely no way those hacks would work in the web+ebooks, where things need to be kept Accessible, and users are able to copy/paste, change fonts, font sizes, display sizes, etc.

It's part of the big reason why AMS + others all pushed to get Maths added to the actual Unicode standard.

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