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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. arg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why exactly was it necessary to link to the user agreement rather than say an example of the fonts or something a tad more useful?

  2. Re:awesome by ScriptedReplay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Times New Roman can type every single character on the character map, which is a FUCKING LOT of scientific characters.

    Umm, no. It's a fucking lot of Latin characters, but pitiful wrt scientific notation. Check out the AMS symbol fonts in LaTeX if you want to get a clue.