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* New STIX font version
@ 2011-10-07 13:53 Tobias Burnus
  2011-10-07 17:24 ` Hans Hagen
  2011-10-07 17:24 ` Hans Hagen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Tobias Burnus @ 2011-10-07 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,

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)

 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."

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

Besides those changes, some a (very) few glyphs have been added and some 
smaller changes have been done.

Tobias
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2011-10-07 13:53 New STIX font version Tobias Burnus
2011-10-07 17:24 ` Hans Hagen
2011-10-07 17:53   ` Khaled Hosny
2011-10-07 17:24 ` Hans Hagen
2011-10-07 17:56   ` Khaled Hosny
2011-10-07 18:14     ` Hans Hagen
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