[OS X TeX] STIX Fonts

[Jens Nöckel]

Yes, that's at http://www.stixfonts.org/ and it sounds really great - 
even though I wonder what took them so long!!!

Looks like one important use for these fonts may be to fix MathML 
support in Firefox on OS X (which is currently not usable). 
Unfortunately, the deadline for the beta release of these has already 
been postponed from Sept. to October, as far as I can tell. And a 
licence for developers which was supposed to be available in July is 
still pending legal review...

Jens

On Aug 24, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Paul Fons wrote:

> A while ago I noticed on a random page on the internet that there is 
> soon (September) to be a release of a new set of (opentype) fonts that 
> will handle most (as in AIP/APS/OPS/AMS) typesetting needs.  This 
> project has been apparently brewing for some time and seems to be 
> suggested by Elsevier and includes the AIP/ACS/AMS/IEEE and APS.  They 
> intend to make the fonts available free to all users.  (From the web 
> site -- "Toward this purpose, the STIX fonts will be made available, 
> under royalty-free license, to anyone, including publishers, software 
> developers, scientists, students, and the general public.") It would 
> appear that the fonts are copyrighted for protection of the name and 
> users are free to imbed the fonts in their pdf documents etc..  The 
> main goal appears to have a complete set of freely available fonts 
> that (subset unicode) and allow scientific interchange (hence the 
> interests of the APS/AIP/AMS).  Of course it would be wonderful to 
> have a complete set of fonts in teTeX.  From the site it would appear 
> that there are now a total of 7,967 glyphs and the beta will come out 
> in September and a release in December (of course such things change). 
>  Any word/opinion on this font package and its (beneficial) impact on 
> laTeX?
>
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Jens Uwe Nöckel
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Department of Physics
University of Oregon
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