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In article <SPQR.91Mar21192941@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk>, spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes:
> In article <1991Mar19.013622.6266@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
 
>    We are looking for a Postscript font that can be used on a Mac so we
>    can generate math symbols and certain math letters. The "symbol"
>    font is not enough. We would really like something that has all the symbols
>    that the TeX fonts do.
 
> since TeX has what you want, bite the bullet and use Computer Modern
> Roman maths fonts. Blue Sky Research will sell you the fonts in Adobe
> Type 1 format (or maybe its still Type 3) which you will presumably be
> able to use with your Mac applications OK.

Blue Sky is selling Type 1 fonts (I READ all the ads in TUGboat
;-). However, using CM Math means using CM text which may not be
what they desire. I don't know about the PS versions but the
bitmap versions follow the coding of standard CM which puts
characters at x'20 and x'0d. This causes a visible character to
be printed at every space and end-of-paragraph with the Mac apps
I tried. Generally not a desirable result. Besides, they might
*want* to use Times as their body font.
 
> Have you looked at the Lucida Maths fonts? They consciously set out to
> cover the same field as TeX's maths fonts

This might be a bit more workable, but again, they'll need to buy
both the math and text fonts to get decent results. And since
Lucida math is not widely used, they'll probably have to buy from
Adobe and pay full price. Urp.

Other options for PS math include MoreMath which was presented at
TeX89 at Karlsruhe. The author of that font is Paul D. Bacsich
who (at the time at least) is at the Open University in the UK.
This is a times-compatible symbol font supporting the TeX
character set plus the VDM chars.

Bitstream created a similar extension for DEC. I'm not sure
whether they or DEC will sell it individually or what DEC package
it's part of.

-dh

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