Make serif as a stub, just to recycle existing serif glyphs

[Mercury13]

Noto Math used to have a mixture of sans and serif glyphs.
@khaledhosny made sans font really sans, but he scrapped lots of good characters.
Need to recycle them, without drawing new characters for now. Just take Latin/Greek from Serif.
First someone redraws integrals, then harmonizes + with serif, and eventually, in a year or two…
I checked, lots of work.
I can take this (no variable I just cannot work with), but you see my pace in Egyptian.

[Enivex]

I think that going all in on sans-serif was a conscious choice. See the recently closed issue #54

[Mercury13]

Making sans-serif a COMPLETE sans-serif is a good choice. But lots of good characters were scrapped, and anybody non-Arabic is unable to recreate them. That’s why I’m asking to make it just as a stub.

[khaledhosny]

Just to show the scale of work, the non-alphabetic glyphs in Noto Sans Math are over 3262 glyphs, out of 5104 total. Most of them will need to be drawn from scratch since Noto Serif does not have much of them.

[Mercury13]

@Enivex
It is for my own benefit too — my Unicodia will be forced to use obsolete Math (just two fonts support these characters, Amiri and Noto).
And right now it uses a mixture of Cambria and Noto, and when it becomes serif, it’ll use solely Noto.

@khaledhosny
I checked, several hundred. That’s why I say that it’s a slow process: first sums and integrals, then harmonize ±…

[khaledhosny]

The only serif glyphs from the old Noto Sans Math that are not in Noto Serif, are the ssty variants, and these seem to have been created from Noto Serif bolder masters, so not much is lost (well, nothing is lost actually, everything is the the repository history).

[khaledhosny]

The Arabic math glyph in old Noto Sans Math, were not usable any way. Amiri one’s are better.