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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/lm-math/README-Latin-Modern-Math.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/lm-math/README-Latin-Modern-Math.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..43b274a0f17 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/lm-math/README-Latin-Modern-Math.txt @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +########################################################################### +############ Latin Modern Collection of Fonts ############ +########################################################################### + +Font: Latin Modern Math +Authors: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk and Piotr Pianowski +Version: 1.950 +Date: 11 X 2012 + +License: + % Copyright 2012 for the Latin Modern math extensions by B. Jackowski, + % P. Strzelczyk and P. Pianowski (on behalf of TeX Users Groups). + % + % This work can be freely used and distributed under + % the GUST Font License (GFL -- see GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt) + % which is actually an instance of the LaTeX Project Public License + % (LPPL -- see http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt). + % + % This work has the maintenance status "maintained". The Current Maintainer + % of this work is Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk and Piotr Pianowski. + % + % This work consists of the files listed + % in the MANIFEST-Latin-Modern-Math.txt file. + +########################################################################### +############ A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FONT ############ +########################################################################### + +Latin Modern Math is a math companion for the Latin Modern family +of fonts (see http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern) in +the OpenType format. + +The math OTF fonts should contain a special table, MATH, described in the +confidential Microsoft document "The MATH table and OpenType Features +for Math Processing". Moreover, they should contain a broad collection +of special characters (see "Draft Unicode Technical Report #25. +UNICODE SUPPORT FOR MATHEMATICS" by Barbara Beeton, Asmus Freytag, +and Murray Sargent III). In particular, math OTF fonts are expected +to contain the following scripts: a basic serif font (regular, bold, +italic and bold italic), a calligraphic font (regular and bold), +a double-struck font, a fraktur font (regular and bold), a sans-serif +font (regular, bold, oblique and regular oblique), and a monospaced font. + +The basic script is, obviously, Latin Modern. Some scripts, however, +are borrowed from other fonts (the current selection, however, may +be subject to change), belonging, however, to the "TeX circle": + + * the calligraphic and fraktur alphabets are excerpted from the renowned + Euler family (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler); + + * the double struck script is excerpted from Alan Jeffrey's bbold font + (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bbold/bbold.pdf) + + * the sans serif and monospaced alphabets are excerpted from + the Latin Modern Sans and Latin Modern Mono fonts + (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern); + sans serif bold Greek symbols (required by the already mentioned + "Unicode Technical Report #25") were prepared using D.E. Knuth's + font sources with some manual tuning + +The main math component, that is, the math extension, was programmed +from scratch, with an attempt to retain the visual compatiblility +with the original D.E. Knuth's fonts. In particular, all symbols +(with a few exceptions) appearing in the D.E. Knuth's "canonical" fonts +have the same width (rounded) as the corresponding Knuthian ones. + +Note that the members of all the mentioned alphabets, except +the main roman alphabet, should be considerd symbols, not letters; +symbols are not expected to occur in a text stream; instead, +they are expected to appear lonely, perhaps with some embellishments +like subscripts, superscripts, primes, dots above and below, etc. + +To produce the font, MetaType1 and the FontForge library were used: +the Type1 PostScript font containing all relevant characters was +generated with the MetaType1 engine, and the result was converted +into the OTF format with all the necessary data structures by +a Python script employing the FontForge library. + +The TeX Gyre Math Project was launched and is supported by +TeX USERS GROUPS (CS TUG, DANTE eV, GUST, NTG, TUG India, TUG, UK TUG). +Hearty thanks to the representatives of these groups and also +to all people who helped with their work, comments, ideas, +remarks, bug reports, objections, hints, consolations, etc. |