Searching for Baskerville based text and math font

Daniel

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Oct 13, 2011, 1:44:00 PM10/13/11

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I'm searching for a text and math font based on Baskerville, which is
the most beautiful font ever designed, in my opinion. I'm aware of
some Baskerville based text fonts for LaTeX (e.g. adapting Adobe's
Baskerville based font for LaTeX), but no math fonts.

A company named "MicroPress" offers (?) a product exactly like I'm
searching for:
http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/bamath/bamain.htm

However, I have called and emailed the number and address listed on
the web page, but haven't been able to reach anyone. My suspicion is
that MicroPress is no longer an active company. If MicroPress ever
was active, then someone somewhere in the world is bound to have a
copy of the MicroPress BA Math Fonts. Does anyone in this group have
the fonts? Does anyone in this group know anything about MicroPress
or how I could reach someone from the company?

I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks.

Robin Fairbairns

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Oct 13, 2011, 2:57:55 PM10/13/11

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Daniel <djuat...@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm searching for a text and math font based on Baskerville, which is
> the most beautiful font ever designed, in my opinion. I'm aware of
> some Baskerville based text fonts for LaTeX (e.g. adapting Adobe's
> Baskerville based font for LaTeX), but no math fonts.
>
> A company named "MicroPress" offers (?) a product exactly like I'm
> searching for:
> http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/bamath/bamain.htm

not encouraging that it's got such an aged datestamp.

> However, I have called and emailed the number and address listed on
> the web page, but haven't been able to reach anyone. My suspicion is
> that MicroPress is no longer an active company. If MicroPress ever
> was active, then someone somewhere in the world is bound to have a
> copy of the MicroPress BA Math Fonts. Does anyone in this group have
> the fonts? Does anyone in this group know anything about MicroPress
> or how I could reach someone from the company?

i used to be in vaguely regular contact (for the faq); the last time i
had mail from mike vulis was 2009; at one stage he employed at least one
other person (i edited a paper from the two of them about a micropress
product, in 2000). i assume he has some other job -- he seems to be
listed as a professor at cuny, but who knows whether that's historical,
too?

> I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks.

you might also try the tug office: micropress used to advertise in
tugboat.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
my address is @cl.cam.ac.uk, regardless of the header. sorry about that.

William F. Adams

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Oct 14, 2011, 1:04:15 PM10/14/11

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Did you try purchasing the fonts from the on-line order form?

http://www.micropress-inc.com/forms/orderform.html

William

Daniel

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Oct 14, 2011, 2:24:31 PM10/14/11

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The online order form is unsecured, so I'm immediately suspicious.
When I didn't hear back from the company, I entered my information and
an expired credit card into the form (to see if that would trigger any
response), but nothing happened.

Bob Tennent

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Oct 14, 2011, 5:38:49 PM10/14/11

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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:44:00 -0700 (PDT), Daniel wrote:

> I'm searching for a text and math font based on Baskerville, which is
> the most beautiful font ever designed, in my opinion. I'm aware of
> some Baskerville based text fonts for LaTeX (e.g. adapting Adobe's
> Baskerville based font for LaTeX), but no math fonts.

Check out bnewbask.{txt,pdf,tgz} and mathbnb.{txt,pdf,tgz} at

http://www.gaehrken.de/tex/

The creator acknowledges that the quality doesn't match BA but if the
latter isn't available ...

Bob T.

Daniel

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Oct 14, 2011, 7:55:11 PM10/14/11

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Thanks, Bob. That looks promising. If I can't obtain the MicroPress
BA fonts, I will give that a try.

Bob Tennent

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Oct 16, 2011, 9:58:43 PM10/16/11

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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:44:00 -0700 (PDT), Daniel wrote:

> I'm searching for a text and math font based on Baskerville, which is
> the most beautiful font ever designed, in my opinion. I'm aware of
> some Baskerville based text fonts for LaTeX (e.g. adapting Adobe's
> Baskerville based font for LaTeX), but no math fonts.

Another solution: Adobe's Utopia family is very similar to Baskerville
and is not only free but has *two* possibilities for math support:
fourier or mathdesign.

http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/utopia/
http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/utopia-md/

Bob T.