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From: keie@cs.vu.nl (Keizer E G)
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Subject: Re: Math symbol font
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Date: 25 Mar 91 09:47:07 GMT
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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.


>But the symbols we really need are h-bar (Planck's constat divided by 2 pi)
>and a script lower case letter l (\ell in TeX). Next most important are
>script upper case J, K, and L. 

Last Friday Adobe's Mathematical Pi font landed on my desk. It is
font package number 158. I did not test it on MacIntoshes, I use the
fonts on a PostScript printer attached to UNIX boxes, but saw both
the outline fonts and the bitmap fonts on the MacIntosh disk carrying
the fonts. The package contains 6 fonts: MathematicalPi-One through Six.
They contain:
	One	Greek font (not italic) comparison symbols (less-equal ...)
		h-slash, lambda-slash, infin., prop. to ,...
	Two	A complete Schwabinger or Fraktur font ( I am not sure which
		I'd have to look that up at home), An Upper Case Script Font
		and a few lower case script letters (g,h,l,z) in two weigths.
	Three	Lots of brackets, parenthesis and integration symbols in
		two weights and a few variations of the equal and
		identical signs.
	Four	A Bold Greek font (not italic) and lots of symbols used with
		sets.
	Five	Lots of symbols used in logic and the compare entities
		of which I do not know into which catecory they fit.
	Six	An capitals-only `open' font, which I am not to safisfied with,
		that can be used to indicate the sets of integers,
		positive integers, real numbers etc. Squares, triangles and
		circles, not, while or partially filled.
		And lots of mathematical symbols with dots in them.

This is not a superset of the AMS fonts used with TeX. Neither is it a subset.
But it is very usefull to have around in a mathematical environment and
costs (single printer license) around Dfl 900 (~$500).

Ed Keizer
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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