Provide alternative fonts for formulas

[ForNeVeR]

Eventually, we'll need to provide alternatives to Computer Modern we use currently.

Depends on:

• Research the dieresis situation #109
• Document all the parameters in the DefaultTexFont.xml #235
• Extensible definition dictionary #47
• Support for external fonts #156

[msthrax]

Hi.
Any coming updates on new fonts?

[ForNeVeR]

We have made some progress on automated font metric extraction, but that's it.

If you only want to change font of text and not formulas, then just use \text{ … }: this is customizable.

[msthrax]

Actually I need subscript and superscript in my app. I handled that with your library which was great but default font doesn't look good. Can you suggest a way to show subscript and superscript text in WPF App?
Thank you.
🙂

[ForNeVeR]

something^{\text{ … }} is also supposed to work, IIRC.

Also, it may depend on the kind of information you want to sub/superscript, but most modern fonts have a separate set of sub/superscript characters (I can't remember if they include all the letters or not).

See this page for an overview.

[msthrax]

As you said, I tested "something^{\text{ … }}" and actually it worked. But my next problem was changing the font and size. I used SystenFontName property to change font family but could do anything with font size. Is there any way for that?
Thank U.

[ForNeVeR]

So far, there are no specific controls for the "system font" size. You can only change it together with the math font size, by controlling the scale of the whole formula.