Re: [LaTeXML] Fwd: Special TeX/LaTeX fonts in MathML (calligraphy vs. script)

Le 25/07/2014 15:06, Bruce Miller a =E9crit :
> This would seem to reinforce the point of view that the distinction =

> between
> script & caligraphic is one of style rather than semantics.
Well, as I (and others) said the distinction is not really obvious since =

we often use different styles in mathematics to create different =

meanings... But in practice, existing OpenType MATH fonts follow Unicode =

for the available code points and some of them provide stylistic =

variants via OpenType features, so that's the only way we have right now =

for a generic support of calligraphic/oldstylenum....
> The font designer would presumably populate the block at U+1D49c
> with either more script-like or caligraphic-like according to his or her
> tastes.  Have you noticed any fonts where those glyphs would be
> considered more "caligraphic"?  (incidentally, there isn't much
> distinction between the meanings of "script" vs "caligraphic",
> it's more tied to the traditional font designs with those names!)
I just posted another message about my mathfonts GitHub repo:

http://fred-wang.github.io/MathFonts/

Most of the fonts seem to have a "script" style, but Asana & XITS expose =

a "calligraphic" style as "salt" or "ssXX" OpenType feature... Also, as =

William Hammond mentioned in a previous message, I see that the "bold =

script" is more "calligraphic" on =

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symbols (not sure =

which font is used on my system).
> It's interesting that you mention Euler.  Just how _are_ Euler's
> plane 1 tables arranged?  One might expect that MathML using Euler
> would map a simple <mi>A</mi> to U+1D434, with a font-family:"Euler"
> floating around somewhere. And yet, Euler's A is decidedly _not_ italic!
> Indeed, one might dare to call it caligraphic! :>
Well, I was actually talking about "Neo-euler" which is an OpenType MATH =

font created by Khaled Hosny. However, I think he was not really happy =

with this font and he did not release it yet, so I would not try to make =

any comment on this...

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Fr=E9d=E9ric Wang
maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic