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Stix Scientific Fonts Reach Beta Release

Posted by Zonk on from the make-sure-to-!-after-the-word-science dept.

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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  1. Re:chicken by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  2. Re:Equation Editor/Matlab by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
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