Re: Variant glyphs for mathematical symbols

Where can I lay my hands of a font that contains slanted integrals?

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On 5/6/2012 10:49 PM, philip chastney wrote:
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> *From:* Asmus Freytag <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com>
> *To:* Unicode Mailing List <unicode_at_unicode.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, 7 May 2012, 1:36
> *Subject:* Variant glyphs for mathematical symbols
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> First question:
>
> When the integral symbols were encoded in Unicode there was
> discussion of the fact that these were deliberately unifying an
> upright and a slanted style of integral.
>
> Now, I'm pretty sure that I've seen both styles in print at
> some point, but I can't seem to find any TrueType or OpenType
> fonts that support the slanted style. Or, I may just not know
> where to look.
>
> Is this style still in use anywhere, and do people make or maintain
> fonts for it?
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> *the Stix fonts provide glyphs for slanted integral signs
> Euclid, too, has a slanted symbol,
>
> both styles are still used in print, but the slanted style seems to me
> to be the more common of the two
>
> integral signs are commonly multi-storey, so implementing slanted
> styles in TrueType fonts is not easy
>
> that is to say, implementing them in TrueType alone is not easy --
> OpenType helps, and MathType and firemath (among others) can solve
> most other problems at a later stage in the proceedings
>
> I cannot think of a single instance, real or artificial, where a
> change of style is semantically significant, but mathematicians can be
> quite loose and free in their notation, so if 2 symbols are available,
> some day somebody will use them simultaneously with different meanings
>
> /phil
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Received on Mon May 07 2012 - 12:21:58 CDT