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The Font Manager is where you can specific what fonts can be used in an equation and the ways in which they are applied for each style. The Font Manager dialog is shown below, and it is opened by selecting Font Manager... from the Settings menu.
The Font Manager window displays a master list of fonts on the left and a table of character styles on the right. The master list of fonts contains every font that can be used in an equation regardless of how it’s actually used. There can be up to 16 fonts used at once, and every symbol in a single equation must use one of the 16 fonts in the list. The first font, which is numbered 0, is the built-in Radical font, and it is always available. (The Radical font contains hundreds of mathematical symbols, but not ordinary letters and numbers.) The other 15 fonts can be chosen by the user.
To change a font in the master font list, click the Change... button next to its entry. A dialog will appear showing all of the fonts installed on the computer for general use. Select the font you want, and hit the Okay button. If the font has not previously been used in any equation, then a small window will briefly appear as the font is being imported for the first time. The selected font will then appear in the master font list.
A font can be removed from the master font list by clicking the Remove button next to its entry. At this point, the numbered slot becomes empty. When the Okay button is clicked to close the Font Manager, any references in the style table to empty slots in the font list are ignored.
Each of the character styles that can be used in an equation are listed on the right side of the Font Manager dialog. These styles correspond to everything available under the Style menu plus separate upright and italic versions of the Greek style that receive special handling.
In the box next to each style, you specify which font(s) you want to use to draw characters having that style. The fonts are identified by their entry numbers in the master font list, and there can be up to four fonts specified in a comma-separated list for each style. When Radical Pie needs to draw a character having a particular style, it looks for that character in the first font, and if it doesn’t find the character, then it looks in the remaining fonts in the order they’re listed if they have been specified. The first font listed for a style is thus the primary font from which characters of that style should be drawn, and any subsequent fonts are fallbacks.