[XeTeX] Lucida New Math and XeTeX
Axel E. Retif
axretif at igo.com.mx
Wed May 16 09:20:33 CEST 2007
On 15 May, 2007, at 21:18, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 5/16/07, Axel E. Retif <axretif at igo.com.mx> wrote:
>> I was very surprised to find out that Lucida New Math (Lucida TUG
>> distribution) works perfectly well with XeTeX
>
> With the xdv2pdf driver, only *non* virtual fonts will work.
I see. That explains why LucidaNewMath works both with xdv2pdf as
well as xdvipdfmx ---the Y&Y roots, I presume.
> Don't
> forget that XeTeX does what TeX does, so there's no reason that legacy
> maths fonts shouldn't also work (now...things were a bit different in
> the past).
Last time I had checked this was the case.
> But most maths fonts these days are virtual fonts, so they
> can't be used...unless you use the xdvipdfmx driver, which does
> support them.
But all I checked didn't work so well as Lucida ---many symbols are
taken from Computer Modern.
Best,
Axel
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