Re: New STIX font version

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 7-10-2011 15:53, Tobias Burnus wrote:

> you might be interested in hearing that there is a new there is a new
> version of the STIX fonts (since 1h ago) - or rather a beta version:
> 1.1.0-beta1. See:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/files/STIXv1.1.0-beta1.zip/download
>
>
> "The beta period will remain open until December 1, 2011." - Thus, one
> has still 5 months time to comment on the bugs. (Or are that two moths?
> With STIX ETA one never knows ...)
>
> As reminder: STIX fonts
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project) are a large collection
> of Times-like math fonts, created by several publishing houses in a
> rather slow process. A year ago, 1.0 was relased and now with 1.1b1 is
> finally released. Seemingly, one can now use it directly such that one
> does not need the XITS fonts anymore. (Cf. http://typophile.com/node/71171)

well, my impression is that stix does not care too much about tex and 
aims at msword so I'd rather stick to xits (which has some interesting 
extras anyway) .. i wonder if they ever consulted Khaled or any of the 
gyre font folks or engine developers or ...

>  From the release notes:
>
> "What is new in this release?
> The original Version 1.0 STIX was packaged as 29 distinct font files.
> Version 1.1.0-­‐beta1 provides the same set of
> glyphs packaged as a set of 4 text fonts and 1 symbol font. This new
> packaging will facilitate the use of the font on more
> desktop applications, and will specifically allow the symbol font to be
> used in recent versions of the Microsoft Word Equation Editor."

'symbol font' .. an interesting way to refer to a math font

> "In addition, an update was made to address compatibility issues between
> the font set and the Windows PostScript driver."

hm

Hans

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