On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 03:29:31PM -0300, George N. White III wrote: > 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.
Good point. I fixed few buglets in STIX (mostly wrong glyph metrics) and I think I should, at some point, report it and any new discovered issue to STIX project. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex