Asana-Math is a Palatino

Palatino

Palatino is the name of a large typeface family that began as an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf initially released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry.In 1999, Zapf revised Palatino for Linotype and Microsoft, called Palatino Linotype...

-like OpenType

OpenType

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior...

 mathematical font with advanced layout features based on the undocumented Microsoft mathematical OpenType layout 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, Asána) in the Doric dialect

Doric Greek

Doric or Dorian was a dialect of ancient Greek. Its variants were spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea, some cities on the coasts of Asia Minor, Southern Italy, Sicily, Epirus and Macedon. Together with Northwest Greek, it forms the...

 is the name of the Greek mythological goddess Athena

Athena

In Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...

.

The font can be used to typeset mathematics in Unicode using the free typesetting systems XeTeX

XeTeX

XeTeX is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType or Apple Advanced Typography...

 and LuaTeX

LuaTeX

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, derivatives of TeX

TeX

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, and with Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007

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. It was the first free font that could be used instead of Microsoft's Cambria Math

Cambria (typeface)

Cambria is part of the suite of fonts that comes with Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, specifically designed for on-screen reading and to be aesthetically pleasing when printed at small sizes. It is a...

with these applications.

Features

• General OpenType features (oldstyle figures, stylistic alternatives for the calligraphic mathematical characters , doteless forms in mathematical alphanuneric, partial implementation of script style in mathematical alphanuneric).
• 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.

FontLog

• v. 000.930 Added some more experimental horizontal variants.
• v. 000.931 Added some Spacing Modifier Letters.
• v. 000.934 Added glyph for accent circumflex .
• v. 000.935 Modified glyphs uni2257,uni2258, uni2259, uni225A, uni225B, uni225C, uni225D, uni225E, and uni225F.
• v. 000.936 Modified glyphs uni22A7, uni22A8, and uni22AD.
• v. 000.937 NUL character was visible!
• v. 000.938 Added glyphs for characters uni27CE and uni27CF.
• v. 000.939 Added glyphs uni2B51, uni27EE, uni27EF, uni27EC, and uni27EF.
• v. 000.940 Modified hinting info and italic correction.
• v. 000.941 Added certain punctuation symbols.
• v. 000.942 Added Cherokee "letters".
• v. 000.943 Fixed math kern for omega.
• v. 000.944 Fixed math kern for math script letters.
• v. 000.945 Value of constant DisplayOperatorMinHeight has been adjusted. Thanks to Mateus Araújo for finding what caused the problem of big display operatos.

Older entries in the FontLog have been lost.

External links

• Asana-Math on CTAN