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Re: Re: Re: Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?

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• Subject: [mg37991] Re: [mg37962] Re: [mg37951] Re: [mg37939] Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?
• From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
• Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:56:08 -0500 (EST)
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On Friday 22 November 2002 04:16 am, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> In order to get native rendering of MathML in Mozilla (and, I presume,
> in Netscape 7), one is supposed to download the fonts Math1, etc., from
> the Wolfram site (according to the link on the mozilla.org site).
>
> Does that imply that, for purposes of web-viewing MathML pages, one
> CANNOT yet dispense with those old Math1, etc., fonts even if one has
> installed the new Mathematica1, etc., fonts from Mathematica 4.2?
>

In a word sir, yes.  You are correct.


> John Fultz 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.

-- 
STH
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• References:
  • Re: Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?
    • From: John Fultz <jfultz@wolfram.com>
  • Re: Re: Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?
    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye@attbi.com>