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Re: more on a Times/Symbol implementation of MC/MSP

Matthias Clasen:

> Thanks for the new material, Ulrik. So far,I have not looked at the Postscript 
> implementation at all (I guess that I will do that when I find time to look
> at mathfonts again); but I have integrated your concrete version. I'll try
> to produce a new snapshot as soon as possible.

I'll try to finish a new release of the `concmath' fonts over the
weekend.  During this week, I was still revising the documentation,
although the fonts themselvers are ready.

> IIRC, you asked about the prime and backprime in MC some time ago. If have
> looked at Justins paper and found them in the group `core symbols for design 
> similarity reasons', so I guess thats the only reason for them being there
> (it can't be kerning). But I would vote for keeping them in MC, since the
> only alternative would be MSP and it looks as if MSP has even less room than
> MC (if we follow the suggestion to move some exotic new glyphs from MC to MS1,
> like Dal, Vbar and Vbarslanted). 

I think we'll sooner or later have to reconsider the contents of MSP.
As for the exoctic glyphs in MC, I'd propose to take them out and put
them ``on hold'' until it is clarified who really needs them and why.
(BTW, what are the chances of rearranging MS1/MS2 so that the slots
0-31 remain empty except for dotless i/j and perhaps math accents.)

> Justin also mentioned two prime ligature
> slots which would have to live with the two primes. I have no idea what these
> ligature slots are supposed to contain. Perhaps a long-term member of the list
> remembers them ?

AFAIK, Unicode has slots for double and triple prime and backprime.
I'm not sure if the original idea was to reserve slots for those and
access them through ligatures if a font provides them.  Since most
of the existing fonts do not provide them, I wonder if it is really
such a good idea to waste valuable slots this way.

> A final point, regarding upright greek: Ulrik, you marked your improved
> upright greek as `experimental'.  Should I integrate it in the next snapshot ?

I'm not really sure of that myself.  Perhaps it would be better to
stick with what you have until we have further investigated other
alternatives for upright greek.  I remember that I brought up the
suggestion of using the greek/kelly fonts, which also were derived
from upright CM and some hackery.  Perhaps I shold compare that
approach and my work to distill whatever works best of both. 

Cheers, Ulrik.


P.S. Still another question: Should the \backepsilon be included 
in both upright and italics greek?  I'm unfamilar with who uses 
this symbol and what for.  (Adobe Symbol calls it `suchthat'.)