Re: Mathematica Font problems
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- Subject: [mg66945] Re: Mathematica Font problems
- From: "Skillman Hunter" <ski at acrobytes.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 02:01:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Rob, thanks for your response but I don't agree with you. In the Tutorial, on Page 10, the last equation, if the right arrow is selected alone, the Mathematica Format>Font menu shows "Courier New". In the "Program Files" folder, the Mathematica installation has a Fonts folder which has two sub-folders, TrueType and Type1. The TrueType folder is all Mathematica1.ttf-Mathematica7mb.ttf. The Type1 folder has four Courier fonts: "cour.pfa", courb.pfa", courbi.pfa" and "couri.pfa". There are 48 fonts in the Type1 folder including the Mathematica1.pfa series. I looked at the files with WinHex and the beginning of the "cour.pfa" file says "PS-AdobeFont-1.0 Courier 001.003". So these are clearly Courier fonts that I believe are used by Mathematica to have the special characters like the right arrow. My contention is that this fanagling of the fonts is a complication that hampers publishing of Mathematica documents. Someone else in this group (Bill Rowe) recommended using LaTeX instead of Word. I plan to examine LaTex and also Microsoft Publisher. Since I am writing a review that will be published in three computer user group newsletters I need to settle the question of how easy it is to publish Mathematica documents. I don't want to end up with all the special charaters displaying as the unrecognized square box. If I send my review to three different newsletter publishers and they each want to have a different font to be compatible with their publication standards, how much of a hassle will they have in dealing with the right arrow and all the other special symbols? Jens-Peer Kuska recommended downloading the fonts at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/ Does this make a universal solution for all the possible publshing apps? Skillman Hunter "ragfield" <ragfield at gmail.com> wrote in message news:e5mhb7$kc7$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Skillman Hunter wrote: >> On page ten of the Mathematica v5.2 Tutorial the last equation is: >> 1 + x^2 + x^4 + x^5 /. x -> 3 >> But in the actual Tutorial notebook, the -> is a single character that is >> typed in by ESC->ESC and the font is shown to be Courier New. >> >> When I copy the equation and paste it into MS Word, the font changes the >> right arrow to Mathematica1Mono so remains a single character, because >> the >> standard Windows true type Courier New has no right arrow. >> Mathematica installs "Mathematica1Mono" font along with others. >> Apparently >> Mathematica also has a special version of Courier New which does have a >> right arrow. > > To clarify part of your question, Mathematica does not have some > special version of Courier that contains a glyph for the \[Rule] > character. Mathematica uses the standard Courier font but it knows > that Courier does not have a glyph for this character and > Mathematica1Mono does. So it internally substitutes Mathematica1Mono > for Courier when it draws this character. > > -Rob (Wolfram Research) >