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Re: Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?

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  • Subject: [mg37956] Re: [mg37939] Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?
  • From: Luci Ellis <luci at verbeia.com>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:38:39 -0500 (EST)
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On 21/11/02 5:21 AM, "John Fultz" <jfultz at wolfram.com> wrote:

> All of the old Math1-5 glyph mappings are precisely the same in
> Mathematica1-5 except for the double-struck and gothic characters (e.g.
> \[DoubleStruckA], \[GothicA]).  The gothics moved into Mathematica6, and
> the double-strucks moved into Mathematica7.
> 
> We needed to add fonts because the existing ones were running out of room.
> It made sense for these alphabetical sets to have mappings in fonts which
> mapped the alphanumeric glyphs to the expected positions, instead of
> having the alphanumeric glyphs sitting in oddball locations in Math5 like
> they were before (the script letters/numbers currently occupy the
> alphanumeric positions in Math5/Mathematica5)..
> 
> In fact, much of Mathematica 5 is not presently different from the old
> Math5.  If you look at the font, you'll still see many (but not all)
> double-strucks and gothics in it, but this will change in the future, and
> anything generated with 4.2 or later will always reference the
> Mathematica6/7 locations of these glyphs.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> John Fultz
> jfultz at wolfram.com
> User Interface Group
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
> 
> 
Dear John,
Many thanks for this clarification. It is certainly helpful for my
particular needs, and I will update the rest of my LaTeX map file to reflect
this.

Warm regards,
Luci Ellis
http://www.verbeia.com/mathematica/



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