Latin Modern

[ronkok]

KaTeX is tightly bound to the KaTeX fonts. The resulting output has many characters that are not at the correct Unicode code points.

Suppose that KaTeX was instead bound to the Latin Moden font. It uses, as far as I can tell, the same glyphs. But each glyph is at the correct Unicode code point. As an added bonus, many of the colon-equals family of symbols could be rendered with a single glyph instead of a composite of two glyphs.

Drawback: latinmodern-math.woff2 is 380 KB. Many sites would see a bigger font load than they are currently seeing.

If you wish to see Latin Modern in action, use Firefox to view Temml or the Temml docs. Be sure to choose the Latin Modern option.

It would be a pretty big undertaking. A re-run of the font metrics would be necessary. Symbols tables would need to be rewritten. Is it worth the effort?