On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:02:15PM -0700, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:52:13PM -0700, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu > > wrote: > >> > >> > I'm actually planning to include the rest of STIX styles in some later > >> > release, STIX surpasses Termes in its Greek and Cyrillic coverage. > >> > > >> > If there is a real demand, I can do it earlier, but the only > >> improvement > >> > I see over regular STIX will be fractions and oldstyle figures. > >> > >> I think it's worth doing it, considering how little work it would > >> involve. > >> Then XITS would become a complete font. > >> > >> In my original post in this thread I suggested that Will just > >> temporarily > >> add to 'fontspec' an option that > >> > >> \setmainfont{XITS Math} > >> > >> means: load XITS Math for upright Roman, and STIXGeneral for everything > >> else. > > > > You can already do that, check the manual for selecting arbitrary italic > > and bold fonts. > > > > -- > > Khaled Hosny > > I know *that*. But it's cumbersome. It defeats one of the advantages of > using 'fontspec'; one would like to use just one versatile > \setmainfont[...]{...} and not to separately declare fonts for each shape > one-by-one.
But it is defiantly better than patching fontspec to support every exotic use case and font combination, also fontspec does much more than auto-selecting different font weights. -- 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