[XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

[wodzicki at math.berkeley.edu]

> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:52:13PM -0700, wodzicki at math.berkeley.edu
> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm actually planning to include the rest of STIX styles in some later
>> > release, STIX surpasses Termes in its Greek and Cyrillic coverage.
>> >
>> > If there is a real demand, I can do it earlier, but the only
>> improvement
>> > I see over regular STIX will be fractions and oldstyle figures.
>>
>> I think it's worth doing it, considering how little work it would
>> involve.
>> Then XITS would become a complete font.
>>
>> In my original post in this thread I suggested that Will just
>> temporarily
>> add to 'fontspec' an option that
>>
>> \setmainfont{XITS Math}
>>
>> means: load XITS Math for upright Roman, and STIXGeneral for everything
>> else.
>
> You can already do that, check the manual for selecting arbitrary italic
> and bold fonts.
>
> --
>  Khaled Hosny

I know *that*. But it's cumbersome. It defeats one of the advantages of
using 'fontspec'; one would like to use just one versatile
\setmainfont[...]{...} and not to separately declare fonts for each shape
one-by-one.

Mariusz Wodzicki