Stix Scientific Fonts Reach Beta Release

starseeker writes "At long last, the STIX project has posted a Beta release of their scientific fonts. The mission of the STIX project has been the 'preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats.' The result is a font set containing thousands of characters, and hopefully a font set that will become a staple for scientific publishing. Among other uses, it has long been hoped that this would make the wide scale use of MathML in browsers possible. Despite rather long delays the project has persisted and is now showing concrete results."

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chicken

[Anonymous Coward]

chicken

Re:chicken

[Anonymous Coward]

you get the first post... and you say chicken..?

Re:awesome

[forkazoo]

ILuvRamen says:

Well good, they needed a font set that had all the symbols you'd ever want to type in science. Only one little problem though...how do you type it? You'd either need a seriously huge keyboard, someone to memorize thousands of key combinations on a current keyboard, or an on screen keyboard program.

Summary says:

Among other uses, it has long been hoped that this would make the wide scale use of MathML in browsers possible.

Ramen, meet Summary. Summary, meet Ramen. MathML FTW, natch.

Re:Equation Editor/Matlab

[megaditto]

The idea of learning a several thousand large charracter set with all the associated keyboard shortcuts holds no interest for me Pretty soon China will become the only Superpower, and then you are screwed.