Asana-Math is an
OpenType mathematical font
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with advanced layout features based on the
OpenType Math
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extensions. It was developed by Apostolos Syropoulos, based on the Type 1 pxfonts by Young Ryu. Asana-Math is freely available under the
Open Font License. The word Asana (Ἀσάνα, Ásána) in the
Doric dialect is the name of the Greek mythological goddess
Athena
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. It is designed to look similar to, and to blend with,
Palatino
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Named after the 16th-century Italia ...
.
The font can be used to typeset mathematics in Unicode using the free typesetting systems
XeTeX
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or ; see also Pronouncing and writing "TeX") is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType, Graphite and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT). It was originally written by Jonathan Kew ...
and
LuaTeX
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, derivatives of
TeX
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* Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname
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, and with
Microsoft Office 2007
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. It was the first free font that could be used instead of Microsoft's
Cambria Math
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with these applications.
Features
* General OpenType features (oldstyle figures, stylistic alternatives for the calligraphic mathematical characters, dotless forms in mathematical alphanumeric, partial implementation of script style in mathematical alphanumeric).
* Complete coverage of the Cherokee Unicode block.
* Complete coverage of the Greek part of the Greek and Coptic Unicode block.
* Almost complete coverage of all blocks containing mathematical symbols.
Font Sample
See also
Other OpenType fonts with mathematical layout extensions:
*
XITS Math
*
Latin Modern Math
Asana-Math is shipped with:
*
TeX Live
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External links
Asana-Math on CTAN
Mathematical OpenType typefaces
Unicode typefaces
Symbol typefaces
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