_____ ___ ___ _____ |\ /| /\ | | | | | | |\ | | | \/ | /__\ | |---| |- | | | \ | | | | / \ | | | | |___| | \| | rev. 0.8 History ------- NEW in Version 0.8: Minifont added; now MFtog program toggle both system font and minifont. Small design adjustments and chars moving. Changed the ID of the font to 01. Text below revised. NEW in Version 0.7: Font object deleted. MFTog renamed to Mathfont. NEW in Version 0.6: Many new Math Symbols added. Character map redesigned only for MathFont symbols, hence remains compatible with the builtin System Font. Added MFtog (see below). NEW in Version 0.4: Various graphic/design adjustment and small letter adding. NEW in Version 0.3: Very first public version of mathfont. Installation ------------ MFtog (2.4 KB) toggles, at the same time, current builtin Font8 and Minifont with the incapsulated MathFont and MathMinifont objects. To recall these to the stack (usually not necessary) toggle in MFtog and execute the user-commands FONT-> and MINIFONT->. Toggling the built-in font and minifont may change some letters in global names. Hence, it may be more useful to be able to restore the builtin Font8 and minifont in any moment: for this reason a toggler is provided, nor simply objects. Note that a warmstart does not preserve an eventually font modification and sets always a builtin font and minifont. So you can think to add MFtog to your STARTUP variable. The Font -------- MathFont is designed for mathematics and engineering. Roughly speaking, it arises by replacing the multi-language support of the builtin font by a sample of glyphs used in formal and informal mathematical languages. See below for preservings. Clearly, punctuation signs are left as they were, and more greek letters are added. For reasons of compatibility, the character map has been redesigned only to some extend. The order followed for adding new characters is the following, starting immediately after the available greek letters in the builtin System Font: 1 - Lowercase Greek Letters 2 - Uppercase Greek Letters 3 - Superscript Numbers [0,...,9] 4 - Subscript Numbers [0,...,9] 5 - Superscript Operators and Symbols [+, -, =, (, ), ~, dieresis, reversed^] 6 - Dot Product symbol 7 - Subscript Operators and Symbols [+, -, =, (, ), ~, ', cedilla] 8 - Superscript lowercase letters [i, j, k, l, m, n] 9 - Subscript lowercase letters [i, j, k, l, m, n] 10 - Vectors [i, j, k, u, v, w, n, t, b] 11 - Math Signs Accented or characteristic-language letters cannot directly be created - an automated font generator would be needed for such a purpose - but a letter can get subscripts and superscripts, as well as post- or pre-written signs/accents of all kinds (look carefully at the char table). Preserved characters: - Uppercase 'A' with circle above it (Armstrong Unit Symbol)[CODE=197] - Currency symbols (US Dollar, Euro, UK Pound, Yen) [CODE=4,160,163,165] - Paragraph sign modified to represent also circuitation [CODE=167] How to use the Font ------------------- The primary use of MathFont is, that one can write set-theoretical or logical formulas of all kind without any difficulty as strings. To a limited extend, non-standard letters can also be used in algebraics, written, e.g., in the Equation Writer. They can also be used in global names and rompointers. MathMinifont is a porting of the Mathfont to the minifont object type. It is designed to be used in conjunction with Mathfont, so you can view your formulas, equations and names with pretty-print facility provided by Mathfont also with "small" characters (e.g. you can enable the small stack/EQW display). Note that characters with code smaller than 33 can't be used in names: they are control characters and "vanish" whenever they are not included in strings. How to modify the Font ---------------------- Mathfont can be modified like any builtin font just by pressing rightshift CAT (FONT) and then F4 (MODIFY). Move the cursor with the arrow keys and toggle the presence of a font-pixel with the dot-key (103.1). Then leave with ENTER or SCAN, or press CHR+/CHR- to alter the next/prev character. Note that hitting ON (CANCEL) deletes all the current modifications. These remain valid until the next warmstart. If you want to preserve a modified font forever, it must be recalled with FONT-> and stored (perhaps compressed), best in a port. For loading use the MODES/DISP Menu or the function ->FONT. MathMinifont can't be directly modified, because the HP49G does not provide a built-in minifont editor as for font objects. You have to use an external editor (search at www.hpcalc.org) to modify it accordingly to Mathfont. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Federico Marziali (Kickaha), federico.marziali@tiscali.it Wolfgang Rautenberg - raut@math.fu-berlin.de - www.math.fu-berlin.de/~raut