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Do you have any examples of math / engineering texts written with Minion Pro? I can mostly find it used for title fonts, or with a ton of line spacing.

jjgreen 5y ago
A slide deck I did a few years ago: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/pdf/vfplot-GUM11.pdf http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/pdf/vfplot-GUM11.pd... Oh God, 10 years ago ...
- leephillips 5y ago
  I took a look to see the font, which I agree is beautiful. But I stayed for the content. Interesting! And what a great presentation! I have so many questions. What happened to this in the intervening decade? Is the idea incorporated into any other plotting packages? Did you purchase this font to use in your talks? > Oh God, 10 years ago ... I know that feeling.
  - jjgreen 5y ago
    Too kind :-) The package vfplot [1] is still available and still under development, it's rather hard to use in that there are lots of parameters to adjust to get decent looking output. There's also an issue in that the "dimension climbing" approach means putting an ellipse at each boundary corner and then as many as you can fit on the line-segment between them, there are lots of ways that this can fail for complex boundaries (coastlines, for example). I think I've fixed this using the fact that "a line segment is a degenerate ellipse", so one can actually calculate a "distance" between a line-segment and an ellipse in almost the same way as one calculates the distance between ellipses. The code for this is in a branch on GitLab [2], but there is still quite a bit of work to do for the 2.0 release (later this year?). [1] http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/vfplot/ http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/vfplot/ [2] https://gitlab.com/jjg/vfplot https://gitlab.com/jjg/vfplot
- ska 5y ago
  The equation layout in that doesn't look great, but they are pretty simple so hard to tell details.
- bluenose69 5y ago
  This seems like a great method for showing direction fields. And it's in the Gerris context -- double win!
adiM 5y ago
Motion Mountain book: https://www.motionmountain.eu/index.html https://www.motionmountain.eu/index.html (their certificate seems to have expired). PDF copies also available on scribd: https://www.scribd.com/lists/2705622/Motion-Mountain-Collection-English-Translations https://www.scribd.com/lists/2705622/Motion-Mountain-Collect...
- benrbray 5y ago
  Thanks for the example! I think the scribd pdf viewer has some layout issues, but I can now recall that I've seen this font in quite a few places before. It doesn't look bad, but I still don't think it quite works for dense paragraphs of text compared to Latin Modern. I do really like how it looks on the slideshow in a sibling comment, though.
  - adiM 5y ago
    Aesthetics of a fonts is such a personal feeling. And fonts feel different on screen vs print.
- PrettyPebble 5y ago
  The correct link is https://www.motionmountain.net/index.html https://www.motionmountain.net/index.html
arnarbi 5y ago
Here's an old thesis (of mine) in CS, with a bunch of inference rules, proofs, etc. (Ignore the standardized front matter of ~5 pages) https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/7418/1/MSc_Arnar-Birgisson.pdf https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/7418/1/MSc_Arnar-Birgisson...

jjgreen 5y ago

A slide deck I did a few years ago: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/pdf/vfplot-GUM11.pdf http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/pdf/vfplot-GUM11.pd... Oh God, 10 years ago ...

leephillips 5y ago
I took a look to see the font, which I agree is beautiful. But I stayed for the content. Interesting! And what a great presentation! I have so many questions. What happened to this in the intervening decade? Is the idea incorporated into any other plotting packages? Did you purchase this font to use in your talks? > Oh God, 10 years ago ... I know that feeling.
- jjgreen 5y ago
  Too kind :-) The package vfplot [1] is still available and still under development, it's rather hard to use in that there are lots of parameters to adjust to get decent looking output. There's also an issue in that the "dimension climbing" approach means putting an ellipse at each boundary corner and then as many as you can fit on the line-segment between them, there are lots of ways that this can fail for complex boundaries (coastlines, for example). I think I've fixed this using the fact that "a line segment is a degenerate ellipse", so one can actually calculate a "distance" between a line-segment and an ellipse in almost the same way as one calculates the distance between ellipses. The code for this is in a branch on GitLab [2], but there is still quite a bit of work to do for the 2.0 release (later this year?). [1] http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/vfplot/ http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/vfplot/ [2] https://gitlab.com/jjg/vfplot https://gitlab.com/jjg/vfplot
ska 5y ago
The equation layout in that doesn't look great, but they are pretty simple so hard to tell details.
bluenose69 5y ago
This seems like a great method for showing direction fields. And it's in the Gerris context -- double win!

adiM 5y ago

Motion Mountain book: https://www.motionmountain.eu/index.html https://www.motionmountain.eu/index.html (their certificate seems to have expired). PDF copies also available on scribd: https://www.scribd.com/lists/2705622/Motion-Mountain-Collection-English-Translations https://www.scribd.com/lists/2705622/Motion-Mountain-Collect...

benrbray 5y ago
Thanks for the example! I think the scribd pdf viewer has some layout issues, but I can now recall that I've seen this font in quite a few places before. It doesn't look bad, but I still don't think it quite works for dense paragraphs of text compared to Latin Modern. I do really like how it looks on the slideshow in a sibling comment, though.
- adiM 5y ago
  Aesthetics of a fonts is such a personal feeling. And fonts feel different on screen vs print.
PrettyPebble 5y ago
The correct link is https://www.motionmountain.net/index.html https://www.motionmountain.net/index.html

arnarbi 5y ago

Here's an old thesis (of mine) in CS, with a bunch of inference rules, proofs, etc. (Ignore the standardized front matter of ~5 pages) https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/7418/1/MSc_Arnar-Birgisson.pdf https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/7418/1/MSc_Arnar-Birgisson...