[OS X TeX] stix fonts?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 4, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Gary L. Gray <glgray at me.com> wrote:
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>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>> From: "Gary L. Gray" <glgray at me.com>
>>> Subject: [OS X TeX] stix fonts?
>>> Date: January 4, 2014 at 10:37:29 AM EST
>>> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>>> 
>>> This morning, I tried, for the first time, to use the stix fonts with LaTeX. Unfortunately, pdflatex cannot find stix.sty. After some digging around, I see that the fonts themselves are all part of TeX Live 2013, but other stix support files are nowhere to be found. Is this by design? Do I need to install the support files in my local tree and enable stix manually?
>> 
>> Possibly answering my own question, I see that on Jan 2, STIX 1.1.1 was released with the following description: 
>> 
>>> In addition to updating the OpenType version of the STIX fonts
>>> to version 1.1.1 for use with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, it provides
>>> a new packaging of the STIX fonts suitable for use with LaTeX
>>> based on the previously released Version 1.1.0 glyph set. This
>>> package is provided by the STI Pub publishers who maintain the
>>> STIX fonts.
>> 
>> It looks like this means that this update will add LaTeX support files. It hasn’t shown up yet in TLU for me, so I guess I will just wait.
>> 
>> Gary
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I looked for them too but they didn't seem to be delivered via TLU/tlmgr today.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

The LaTeX version of the STIX fonts (.e., .pfb), with support files, seems to be in today's update.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)