Difference between fonts in Mathematica 4.1 and 4.2?

[Luci Ellis]

Dear MathGroupers,

Mathematica 4.2 comes with seven font families, compared with five in the
previous version. I am wondering if anyone knows how compatible these fonts
are.

The reason I ask is that I have a large number of graphics exported from
Mathematica 4.1 under Mac OS 9, which now need to be incorporated into a
(pdf)LaTeX document under Mac OS X. TeXShop/teTeX under Mac OS X chokes
badly on the OS9 versions of the old font sets, but if I edit my LaTeX .map
file to tell pdfLaTeX to embed Mathematica1.pfa instead of Math1(.pfa),
everything seems to work. Ditto for Mathematica2/Math2. So I'm getting rhos
and thetas where I should be getting rhos and thetas. This is a relief, but
I'm wondering whether this trick will work in general for Mathematica
graphics generated under from previous versions. What's in the new fonts
that's not in the old fonts? The documentation just says "New characters for
double struck, script, and Gothic numbers, the planets, and musical notes."
Does this mean that Math[Bold,Mono][1-5] = Mathematica[Bold,Mono][1-5]?

Thanks in advance,
Luci Ellis

[Jens-Peer Kuska]

Hi,

the SystemFiles/Include directory include already the
map fiels for pdflatex and dvips.

The Math1 <-> Mathematica1 ... Math4 <-> Mathematica4 are
mostly unchanged but the Math5 font has the gothic, the double struck
and the caligraphic alphabet inside. Now Mathematica5 hold the
caligraphic
characters, Mathematica6 the ghotic characters and Mathematica7 the
double struck characters. And so your trick work for greek letters
but not for ghotic, double struck and some of the caligraphic
letters.

Regards
Jens