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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}% Begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
-\pdfmapfile{+SticksTooText.map}
+%\pdfmapfile{+SticksTooText.map}
\pdfmapfile{=newtx.map}
\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepackage{amssymb}% don't use with newtxmath
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
{\tt SticksToo} there are most of the options and macros that are part of the {\tt newtxtext} package, but with Times fonts replaced by {\tt StixTwoText} fonts. As of the initial release of {\tt STIX2}, the math fonts have some problem which make them unsuited to high quality mathematical typesetting, and so I'm offering an update of {\tt newtxmath} with option {\tt stix2} that makes use of the Roman and Greek letters from {\tt STIX2} (the two year old beta version, not the one now available on CTAN)
together with math symbols from {\tt newtx}. In my opinion, the {\tt STIX2} fonts are a great improvement over Times based fonts---more readable because of the increased x-height, fewer spacing issues with overly sloped Italic shapes, and handsome new Greek glyphs.
-The symbols in {\tt newtx} are thinner than those in {\tt STIX2}---56{\tt em} versus 66{\tt em}---and the appearance is therefore somewhat lighter. The math axis with {\tt newtx} is 2 units less than with {\tt STIX2}, an amount that few would notice. There is no mixing of
+The symbols in {\tt newtx} are thinner than those in {\tt STIX2}. The usual unit used in PostScript based fonts is one thousandth of the {em} value specified in the font, and that is almost always 10{\tt bp}. So, think of 100 units as 1{\tt bp}. In terms of these units, the line width is 56 units in {\tt newtxmath} versus 66 for {\tt STIX2} and the appearance is therefore somewhat lighter. The math axis with {\tt newtxmath} is 2 units less than with {\tt STIX2}, an amount that few would notice. There is no mixing of
math symbols from {\tt STIX2} and {\tt newtx} where the difference in math axis, however small, might be observable.
\section{Options and Macros}
{\tt scaled, scale:}\\
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Rescales every font in the package. E.g.,
\end{verbatim}
scales everything up by 15\%.
-{\tt proportional (p), tabular, lining, osf:}\\
-These affect the figure style used in text. The default is {\tt tabular, lining}, which is appropriate for math usage, and will be used in math mode no matter how you set the text figure option. E.g., {\tt p,osf} sets the text figure style to proportional, oldstyle, like \textosf{12345}.
+{\tt proportional (p)}, {\tt tabular}, {\tt lining}, {\tt osf}:\\
+These affect the figure style used in text. The default is {\tt tabular}, {\tt lining}, which is appropriate for math usage, and will be used in math mode no matter how you set the text figure option. E.g., {\tt p,osf} sets the text figure style to {\tt proportional}, {\tt oldstyle}, like \textosf{12345}.
{\tt scosf:}\\
This option makes {\tt osf} the default figure style in small cap text.
@@ -85,14 +85,20 @@ These macros provide ways to use other figures styles, no matter what defaults m
% vvarbb selects the STIX version of blackboard bold. See below.
\end{verbatim}
\section{Choices for blackboard bold}
-Unless you specify in the options a choice (one of {\tt varbb}, {\tt vvarbb} for your blackboard bold alphabet, \verb|\mathbb| will use the default blackboard bold alphabet: $\mathbb{A\dots Z}$ (upper-case only), which I find unappealing because the uneven separations between boundaries makes the gray level likewise uneven. There are two macros which provide access to other alphabets other alphabets: \verb|\varmathbb| gives you $\varmathbb{A\dots z\imath\jmath}$, and \verb|\vvmathbb| gives you $\vvmathbb{A\dots z\imath\jmath}$. These work similarly to those in the original {\tt newtxmath}, but have some advantages.
+Unless you specify in the options a choice (one of {\tt varbb}, {\tt vvarbb} for your blackboard bold alphabet, \verb|\mathbb| will use the default blackboard bold alphabet: $\mathbb{A\dots Z}$ (upper-case only), which I find unappealing because the uneven separations between boundaries makes the gray level likewise uneven. There are two macros which provide access to other alphabets:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item
+\verb|\vmathbb| gives you $\vmathbb{A\dots z\imath\jmath}$;
+\item \verb|\vvmathbb| gives you $\vvmathbb{A\dots z\imath\jmath}$.\end{itemize}
+These work similarly to those in the original {\tt newtxmath}, but have some advantages.
\begin{itemize}
\item
both have full uppercase and lowercase, plus \verb|\imath| (dotlessi) and \verb|\jmath| (dotlessj);
-\item both work correctly on strings with more than one token, correctly rendering A..z, \verb|\imath| and \verb|\jmath| and passing through all other control sequences. For example, \verb|\varmathbb{A\imath z\dots\jmath\alpha| renders as $\varmathbb{A\imath z\dots\jmath\alpha}$, the control sequences \verb|\dots| and \verb|\alpha| having passed through to LaTeX for processing. The macro \verb|\vvmathbb| works similarly and renders as STIX blackboard bold.
+\item both work correctly on strings with more than one token, correctly rendering digits, A..z, \verb|\imath| and \verb|\jmath| and passing through all other control sequences. \\
+For example, \verb|\vmathbb{A\imath z\dots\jmath\alpha| renders as $\vmathbb{A\imath z\dots\jmath\alpha}$, the control sequences \verb|\dots| and \verb|\alpha| having passed through to LaTeX for processing. The macro \verb|\vvmathbb| works similarly and renders as STIX blackboard bold.
\end{itemize}
-Option {\tt varbb} causes \verb|\mathbb| causes \verb|\mathbb| to be let equal to \verb|\varmathbb|, effectively {\tt DSSerif}, and option {\tt vvarbb}, causes \verb|\mathbb| to be let equal to \verb|\vvmathbb|, effectively STIX blackboard bold.
+Option {\tt varbb} causes \verb|\mathbb| to be let equal to \verb|\varmathbb|, effectively {\tt DSSerif}, and option {\tt vvarbb} causes \verb|\mathbb| to be let equal to \verb|\vvmathbb|, effectively STIX blackboard bold.
\section{Some math samples}
The following snippets mostly originated with the \TeX Book\ and were adapted for \LaTeX\ from Karl Berry's torture test for plain tex math fonts.