Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

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No, there actualy is some (unofficial?) MS documentation for MATH
tables. It has been seen by both George Williams (fontforge) and
Apostolos Syropoulos (asana).

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Dave Crossland <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2008/8/13 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> 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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