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 Hatton's Law: "There is only One inviolable Law."
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- 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>
- Re: Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?