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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-05-05 17:09:09 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-05-05 17:09:09 +0000
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+With the exception of the PostScript fonts, this material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. See http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html for the details of that license.
+
+The PostScript fonts in this package were derived from the STIX OpenType collection, with regular and bold weights of calligraphic, fraktur and double-struck (aka blackboard bold.) As such, they must be released under the SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1, whose details may be viewed in the file
+
+STIX_Font_License_2010.pdf
+
+distributed with the STIX fonts.
+
+The package contains virtual fonts based on the PostScript fonts with metrics adjusted to suit my taste in width, accent position and subscript position. There are also less oblique variants of the calligraphic faces.
+
+Install the TDS in the usual way. For example, if you have administrative privileges under OS X, cd to the top level of the downloaded folder (where you see subfolders doc, fonts, tex) and type
+
+sudo cp -r * /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
+sudo mktexlsr
+sudo -H updmap-sys --enable Map=boondox.map
+
+after which you should have access to the boondox alphabets.
+
+With MikTeX, copy boondox.zip to the root of the folder you use for personal additions to the TeX trees, open a command window, chdir to that folder, and type
+
+unzip boondox
+initexmf --update-fndb
+initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
+
+The latter command should open updmap.cfg in your default editor, commonly Notepad. Add the line
+
+Map boondox.map
+
+to updmap.cfg, save and close. Then, in the command window, type
+
+initexmf --mkmaps
+
+to complete the installation.
+
+Michael Sharpe
+msharpe at ucsd dot edu
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+\documentclass[11pt]{article}
+\usepackage[margin=1.4in]{geometry}
+%\geometry{landscape} % Activate for for rotated page geometry
+\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
+\usepackage{url}\usepackage{graphicx}
+
+\usepackage{hyperref}
+\title{BOONDOX math alphabets}
+\author{Michael Sharpe\\
+msharpe at ucsd dot edu}
+\date{}
+
+\begin{document}
+\maketitle
+The BOONDOX fonts are PostScript versions of subsets of the STIX fonts corresponding to regular and bold weights of three alphabets---calligraphic, fraktur and double struck, \textsc{aka} blackboard bold. Support files are provided so that they can be called up from \LaTeX\ math mode using the commands \verb|\mathcal|, \verb|\mathbcal|, \verb|\mathfrak|, \verb|\mathbfrak|, \verb|\mathbb| and \verb|\mathbbb|. The font family name derives from the fact that, at least in the US, the phrase ``in the boondox'' implies ``in the stix.''
+
+The base PostScript fonts were constructed from \textsf{STIXGeneral.otf} and \textsf{STIXGeneralBol.otf} using a \textsf{FontForge} script, resulting in
+\begin{verbatim}
+zxxrl8a.pfb % BOONDOXDoubleStruck-Regular
+zxxbl8a.pfb % BOONDOXDoubleStruck-Bold
+zxxrw8a.pfb % BOONDOXCalligraphic-Regular
+zxxbw8a.pfb % BOONDOXCalligraphic-Bold
+zxxrf8a.pfb % BOONDOXFraktur-Regular
+zxxbf8a.pfb % BOONDOXFraktur-Bold
+\end{verbatim}
+together with the corresponding {\tt.afm} files. (The names are almost Berry conformant: the initial {\tt z} warns that they break the rules, and the font id {\tt xx} is completely unblessed by any authority. The remaining parts are nearly OK, except that the font lack many glyphs normally in {\tt 8a} encoding, but all glyphs are in the correct slots.)
+
+Using \textsf{afm2tfm}, the afm files were transformed to raw tfm files (kern information discarded)
+\begin{verbatim}
+zxxrl7z.tfm
+zxxbl7z.tfm
+zxxrw7z.tfm
+zxxbw7z.tfm
+zxxrf7z.tfm
+zxxbf7z.tfm
+zxxrow7z.tfm % same as zxxrw7z, less oblique
+zxxbow7z.tfm % same as zxxbw7z, less oblique
+\end{verbatim}
+which serve as the basis for further virtual math fonts. Finally, using \textsf{FontForge} scripts and manual adjustments to the metrics to suit my personal taste, produces (no pretense of using Berry names):
+\begin{verbatim}
+BOONDOX-r-cal.tfm
+BOONDOX-b-cal.tfm
+BOONDOX-r-calo.tfm
+BOONDOX-b-calo.tfm
+BOONDOX-r-frak.tfm
+BOONDOX-b-frak.tfm
+BOONDOX-r-ds.tfm
+BOONDOX-b-ds.tfm
+\end{verbatim}
+and the corresponding {\tt.vf} files.
+
+There are two ways to use these. The traditional method is based on {\tt.sty} and {\tt.fd} files for each pair: {\tt BOONDOX-cal}, {\tt BOONDOX-calo}, {\tt BOONDOX-frak} and {\tt BOONDOX-ds}. For example,
+\begin{verbatim}
+\usepackage[scaled=.95]{BOONDOX-ds}
+\end{verbatim}
+defines the output from \verb|\mathbb| and \verb|\mathbbb| to come from {\tt BOONDOX-r-ds} and {\tt BOONDOX-b-ds} respectively, scaled to 95\% of normal size, and
+\begin{verbatim}
+\usepackage{BOONDOX-calo}
+\end{verbatim}
+defines the output from \verb|\mathcal| and \verb|\mathbcal| to come from {\tt BOONDOX-r-calo} and {\tt BOONDOX-b-calo} respectively. (These are \emph{less} oblique versions of the {\tt BOONDOX} calligraphic fonts.)
+
+The second method uses a different interface not depending on the {\tt.sty} and {\tt.fd} files at all. The package \textsf{mathalfa } permits you to say
+\begin{verbatim}
+\usepackage[bb=boondox,bbscaled=.95,cal=boondoxo]{mathalfa}
+\end{verbatim}
+to accomplish the same effect as the above.
+
+See the \textsf{mathalfa} documentation for font samples of these and many other math alphabets.
+
+\end{document} \ No newline at end of file