On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Alvaro Tejero Cantero <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you Aleksandr for providing this extended font support. I am
> currently happily using your freefont package for my PhD thesis (with
> Times). Does the new git fork improve on the typesetting with respect
> to the package, or is it just on-screen rendering? (I have to be
> conservative at this moment).
>
> And, as a curiosity - does QT font rendering make TeXmacs faster?
>
>
> -รก.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 02:49, Aleksandr Dobkin <
address@hidden> wrote:
>> I would like to announce that I finally updated my TeXmacs fork on
>> Gitorious. The primary changes over mainline TeXmacs is the inclusion
>> of additional built in fonts, primary a Time work-alike based on GNU
>> FreeFont, and high-quality rendering using Qt.
>>
>> The motivation is that I really don't like the Computer Modern font
>> which is the default in TeXmacs, but I like Times. There is some
>> support for a Times-like font already, but kerning is bad, ligatures
>> don't work, and math mode doesn't work. So I put in good support for
>> Times including good kerning, ligatures, and math support.
>>
>> Also, the font rendering is TeXmacs is not very good. I replaced this
>> with native OS rendering via Qt.
>>
>> The fork is available at
>>
>>
https://gitorious.org/~adob/texmacs/texmacs-otf
>>
>> Please check it out.
>>
>> Font files have been added to the TeXmacs/fonts so no further action
>> beyond make; make install is required. I intend to maintain an
>> up-to-date fork by merging from mainline TeXmacs periodically.
>>
>> Sample output:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/texmacs-fonts/sample2.pdf
>> Sample source:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/texmacs-fonts/sample3.tm
>>
>> Alex
>>
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