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Re: Comments on 0.56

> 
> > - newmath.dtx/.fdd:  Dokumentation of the LaTeX interface
> 
> Bad choice, since both would produce a newmath.dvi. 
> Please consider renaming newmath.fdd to something else.
> 

Oops, thinko, I never actually formatted newmath.fdd except once,
where web2c-7.0 latex produced newmath.fdd.dvi.
 
> One option might be to take out all the font tables from bigdoc,
> perhaps even put the new documentation of the new encodings 
> in a separate file as well, so that bigdoc will just present 
> the framework and to separate sub-documents for everything else.

Yes. And it should get a new name too, then (it won´t be that big
any longer then).
 
> > From a usability standpoint, wouldn't it sometimes be better to have
> > a symbol from cm (even if it isn't a perfect match) than no symbol
> > at all ?  And would using dummy.tfm solve the table-generation
> > problem ?  I guess you would just get empty tables, no ?
> 
> Presumably, such a substitution of a symbol from CM/AMS should be
> requested explicitly rather than occur automatically.  (And yes, 
> it does occur in practice.  Several IOP physics journals are printed 
> with MathTime fonts, but they apparently resort to AMS glyphs for
> leqslant/geqslant and lesssim/gtrsim.  In the MathTime MSP font,
> I've faked these symbols to avoid such problems in the future.)

I agree with explicit requests - although this creates two different
kinds of missing symbols: the ones where the font exist and the
ones where the whole font is missing. The latter ones could then
be substituted by a package option like `substitutecm´, while the
former ones would remain missing (unless we reintroduce the uglyness
of separate macros for each layout). 
 
> As for the table-generation problem, I suppose layout.tex should 
> gain some intelligence, so that it can deduce from them math layout,
> whether or not "extrasym", "extraops", or a bold series are available.  
> Perhaps this could be achieved by adding a few lines to each of the
> *.mfd files.

It would rather just add the few lines to layout.tex itself. Or perhaps
we need the information in the mfd files anyway to support a 
hypothetical `substitutecm´ option.
 
> 1.  I'd like to remind you that I suggested  a name change last week
> to the effect of
> 
>     Times/Symbol -> x sy a,b,c		(rather than xta, ...)
>     Mathematica  -> x mm a,b,c,d,e 	(rather than xsa, ...)
> 
> While xt... for Times might be OK, I find it very confusing to refer
> to the MMa version as xs...

Sorry, I have completely overlooked that.


Regards, Matthias