Asana-Math: close but no cigar

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Wed Aug 13 09:29:43 UTC 2008


2008/8/13 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com>:
>
> The math script, aka MATH table, is a
> MS extension to OpenType. MS has not yet officially submitted any
> documentation for these math layout extensions -- and they are quite
> extensive -- not even in the draft 1.5/1.6 OpenType spec. Despite
> this, it is the de-facto OpenType math standard, and support for it
> has appeared in FOSS projects.
>
> These extensions are implemented only in the Cambria Math font (MS),
> and now in Asana Math (FOSS).

AIUI, the MATH table in Cambria is developed specifically for Cambria
and will not be a 100% fit for other fonts; this is hy MS hasnt done
anything about documenting it properly.

Dave




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