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  1. Re:Proprietary fonts by SEE · · Score: 1 · on Unicode 7.0 Released, Supporting 23 New Scripts

    Why do you think an official Unicode font would solve your mathematical symbol problem any more than the already-available STIX has failed to?

  2. Re:Math PNGs not optimal by krull · · Score: 2, Informative · on NIST Releases Updated Handbook of Math Functions

    Install the STIX fonts as they suggest. I did and now the equations all render in MathML just fine and look pretty good...

    http://www.stixfonts.org/

  3. Re:Where's navigation (going to)? by sarge+apone · · Score: 3, Informative · on Stix Scientific Fonts Reach Beta Release

    Drill down to the Project page: http://www.stixfonts.org/project.html And the American Mathematical Society STIX project page has some examples: http://www.ams.org/STIX/private/stixprv-E2.html

  4. High Quality Free Fonts by gr8_phk · · Score: 2, Informative · on Font Raid Spells Trouble for Publisher

    Not sure what these look like yet, but people should be aware of the Stix Fonts project. They are professionaly produced and cover a large number of glyphs (several thousand). I submitted a blurb to slashdot when they were having public comments on the license, but it got rejected. Anyway, they are intended to be free (of charge) for a lot of use. Not sure if they can be included in a Linux distro.

  5. Re:What do they look like? by Cmdr+TECO · · Score: 0, Troll · on Free STIX Fonts to be Released in September

    Like Times. So yes, butt-ugly, but it could be worse; they could have used Computer Modern.

  6. Re:Use MathML fonts by hritcu · · Score: 5, Informative · on Free STIX Fonts to be Released in September
    While awaiting the comprehensive set of fonts being made by the STIX project to cover all the symbols in MathML, use the font installers (on the right) to install the fonts on your system if you do not have them already. MIT has developed convenient font installers for Windows and the Mac, following licensing negotiations through this project and mozilla.org staff (especially considering the open-source nature of Mozilla). The respective font owners have made provision for the fonts to be packaged into these installers, with the aim of helping to boost the adoption of MathML into the mainstream.

    MathML-enabled Mozilla uses the MIT fonts, but it first maps them to the right entities. This happens in the code because the fonts, although free, are not to be touched or redistributed. Without the right mapping the fonts are useless, and for anything other than standalone applications you cannot perform such a mapping. So I think that you might be forgetting that the main focus of MathML is the Web not standalone applications. The CSS "font-*" attributes don't allow characters to be mapped to different fonts so I doubt that the MIT fonts are of any real use on the Web (unless you are targeting only the users of MathML-enabled Mozilla).

  7. STIX Fonts by white-mj · · Score: 5, Informative · on Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World

    Have you heard about STIX?

    The STIX fonts are going to cover all of Unicode.

    Maybe I'll never again see "?" for every non-ASCII character. Now, *that* will be useful.

    From their site:

    The STIX mission will be fully realized when:

    * Fully hinted PostScript Type 1 and OpenType font sets have been created.
    * All characters/glyphs have been incorporated into Unicode representation or comparable representation and browsers include program logic to fully utilize the STIX font set in the electronic representation of scholarly scientific documents.

  8. Re:According to the article, it's not open. by deanpole · · Score: 3, Informative · on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds

    Read the FAQ. You can alter them as long as you change the font name.