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Re: Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?

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• Subject: [mg37951] Re: [mg37939] Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?
• From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:38:25 -0500 (EST)
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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.


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:09:13 -0500 (EST), Luci Ellis wrote:
>Dear MathGroupers,
>
>Mathematica 4.2 comes with seven font families, compared with five
>in the previous version. I am wondering if anyone knows how
>compatible these fonts are.
>
>The reason I ask is that I have a large number of graphics exported
>from Mathematica 4.1 under Mac OS 9, which now need to be
>incorporated into a (pdf)LaTeX document under Mac OS X.
>TeXShop/teTeX under Mac OS X chokes badly on the OS9 versions of the
>old font sets, but if I edit my LaTeX .map file to tell pdfLaTeX to
>embed Mathematica1.pfa instead of Math1(.pfa), everything seems to
>work. Ditto for Mathematica2/Math2. So I'm getting rhos and thetas
>where I should be getting rhos and thetas. This is a relief, but I'm
>wondering whether this trick will work in general for Mathematica
>graphics generated under from previous versions. What's in the new
>fonts that's not in the old fonts? The documentation just says "New
>characters for double struck, script, and Gothic numbers, the
>planets, and musical notes." Does this mean that Math[Bold,Mono][1-
>5] = Mathematica[Bold,Mono][1-5]?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Luci Ellis

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