[XeTeX] Fonts in the XeTeX installer?

[Ralf Stubner]

Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> writes:
> On 03/07/2006, at 21:46 , William Adams wrote:
>
>> It seems to me that this is a point at which one could then begin
>> thinking about a minimal xelatex distribution optimised around
>> Unicode and with _no_ support for legacy fonts or encodings.
>
> Seeing as the support is already there, I see no point in removing it.
> But this approach I feel encourages a bit more progress.

I guess William does not want it removed from XeTeX but from the TEXMF
tree of such a 'minimal xelatex distribution'.

>> Isn't creating a Unicode-encoded math font for Latin Modern in the
>> works?
>
> Eventually, but not by the Latin Modern team at this stage.
> Johannes Kuester has it on the cards (www.typoma.com) but no work has  
> been done yet as far as I'm aware.

Creating math fonts in a Unicode compliant way is only part of the
story. TeX needs additional metrics info for using math fonts.
Unfortunately, Microsoft has not yet revealed any documentation on the
OpenType tables they added to 'Cambria Math'. So for the time being the
only way known to me to add such metrics are the nonstandard tables
implemented in FontForge:
<URL:http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/non-standard.html#TeX> 

cheerio
ralf