Hi Frédéric,

On Fri, 23 May 2014 21:38:25 +0200, Frédéric WANG wrote:

> About the STIX versions at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/files/Current%20Release/:
> 
> * STIXv1.1.1-webfonts.zip contains WOFF versions of STIXGeneral and some
> * versions of STIX Word adapted for MathJax. I don't think one wants to
> * install them (except perhaps as a local Web servers) so they can be
> * ignore for fonts-stix. Said otherwise, bug 730995 can be closed.
> 
> * STIXv1.1.0.zip contains two sets: STIXGeneral (about 30 files) and
> * STIX Word (4 files which includes STIX Math). STIXGeneral are becoming
> * obsolete, although they are still used by MathJax and Gecko <= 30, so
> * you might want to keep them. For STIX Word, the more recent 1.1.1
> * version should be considered (see below)
> 
> * STIXv1.1.0-latex contains version for use in the traditional TeX
> * typesetting engine (with the TeX metrics files and stuff). It would be
> * best to ask to the maintainers of the related package if they need
> * these fonts. It's probably already a dependency in texlive.
> 
> * STIXv1.1.1-word is the modern OpenType fonts with a MATH table (see
> * 
> http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg-4/open-font-format/text-isoiec-cd-14496-22-3rd-edition
> * section 6.3.6). The name is really confusing, indeed it can be used in
> * Microsoft Word but also in modern TeX typesetting engines such as
> * XeTeX, LuaTeX or ConTeXt. Again, that should be a dependency for
> * texlive, I guess.
> 
> Anyway, all what I want to ask is to integrate the STIXv1.1.1-word in
> the fonts-stix package, please. I have recently been working on the
> support for the MATH table in WebKit and Gecko and these fonts will be
> necessary for the MathML rendering.
> 
> Note that in Gecko 31 (next ESR), the STIXGeneral fonts will be
> deprecated in favor of the STIX Math fonts. For details, see
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts

Thanks.  I'll investigate your advise a bit more and will
update the package as soon as possible.  But please wait
for a while.

Best regards,                   2014-5-24(Sat)

-- 
 Debian Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima


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