On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Will Robertson <wsp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen <ee...@eelis.net> said: > >> On 2010-06-04 20:31, Khaled Hosny wrote: >>> >>> As promised, the OpenType MATH enriched version of STIX fonts, XITS, >>> is now available. >> >> XITS looks very neat! >> >> Are the STIX people planning to release /official/ OpenType MATH >> enriched versions at some point as well (perhaps as part of STIX version >> 1.1 or 1.2)? > > v1.1 will have OpenType MATH support. > v1.2 will denote (La)TeX support. > >> If so, to what extent would this make XITS obsolete? > > Depends how good a job they do :) Goodness is in the eye of the beholder. I expect some scientific publishers will expect STIX to be used in MS submissions. Large organizations may require Cambria or STIX for documents (PDF?) that will be archived for future generations. Commercial tools may be tweaked to compensate for bugs in STIX, so workflows using STIX will be trusted. <http://www.ams.org/STIX/glyphs/proposal/newsub/utc/utcmemo-s-jun99.pdf> "The ultimate product of the STIX group will be the creation of one comprehensive set of fonts for scientic and technical publishing. This set of fonts should be adopted and supported by all major STM publishers, and will also be made available for general use under license but free of charge, with the explicit aim to ease and foster the uninhibited flow, exchange, and linking of scientic information." The real benefit of XITS is to help TeX users start working with STIX now, so some issues can be found by the people who care about the appearance of maths documents and addressed before they turn into features. -- George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex