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Re: Bert Horn on New Math
- To: lcs@suntopo.matups.fr
- Subject: Re: Bert Horn on New Math
- From: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 93 12:20:38 NZD
- Cc: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Laurent Siebenmann wrote:
> Quick question: Do you recommend Lucida bright for
> heavy mathematics. I am interested but fear the math sys has
> never been debugged.
and Berthold Horn replied:
> Yes, I can recommend Lucida Bright + Lucida New Math for
> heavy math. The fonts and the TeX macro files have been
> thoroughly tested.
I know of at least one bug in the TeX macro files coming with LB+LNM from
Y&Y. I announced it on comp.text.tex, and was met with a stunned silence; I
presume our news feed was up the creek.
In essence, some closing-bracket symbols are given the catcodes of
opening-brackets. Here is what I wrote:
> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
> Path: cs18.cs.aukuni.ac.nz!cs18.cs.aukuni.ac.nz!jeremy
> From: jeremy@hmu1.cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons)
> Subject: Bugs in Y&Y's TeX macros for Lucida fonts
> Sender: news@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (USENET News System)
> Organization: Funky Monkey Multimedia Corp.
> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 07:00:53 GMT
>
> We bought Y&Y's Lucidabright fonts recently. They came with a whole bunch
> of very useful TeX macros to access the fonts. I've been getting anomolous
> results in setting maths with them; the spacing in `$(1+2)+3$' is all wrong
> (the second `+' has no spacing round it, whereas the first is nicely
> spaced). It turns out the the problem is wrong settings in the files
> lcdplain.tex and lcdlatex.tex; they contain the lines
>
> > \mathcode`\[="4186 \delcode`\[="186302
> > \mathcode`\]="4187 \delcode`\]="187303
>
> and
>
> > \mathcode`\(="4184 \delcode`\(="184300
> > \mathcode`\)="4185 \delcode`\)="185301
>
> and
>
> > \def\ldbrack{\delimiter"4182382}
> > \def\rdbrack{\delimiter"4183383}
>
> That is, `]', `)' and `\rdbrack' are all defined to be `openings' rather
> than `closings'. The fix is to use 5s rather than 4s:
>
> > \mathcode`\[="4186 \delcode`\[="186302
> > \mathcode`\]="5187 \delcode`\]="187303
>
> and
>
> > \mathcode`\(="4184 \delcode`\(="184300
> > \mathcode`\)="5185 \delcode`\)="185301
>
> and
>
> > \def\ldbrack{\delimiter"4182382}
> > \def\rdbrack{\delimiter"5183383}
>
> Berthold: could you pass this on to Y&Y? Thanks.
>
> Jeremy
> --
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> Department of Computer Science, fax: +64 9 373 7453
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