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STIX Project Releases v1.0 of Its Scientific Fonts Set

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-conservative-versioning dept.

starseeker writes "The Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project has released version 1.0 of its font set. This release is the product of almost 15 years of work, with the goal of creating a comprehensive set of fonts for scientific and engineering manuscript creation. The fonts have been released under the SIL Open Font License, and can be downloaded here. Among the many potential applications is proper universal support for MathML in web browsers." If you want a peek, here's "a page for viewing the thousands of glyphs (as a first approximation, think of a glyph as an individual character)."

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  1. Re:Why I am supposed to care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because Arial doesn't have the -right- oddball glyphs.

    "The largest component of the fonts is devoted to the thousands of mathematical operators and technical symbols necessary to report research."

  2. Re:Why I am supposed to care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    None. But then, if you are writing real math papers, you already would have learned to stay away from MS Word & Arial Unicode.

    Since Arial is not open, it can't be (for example) shipped with a TeX distribution.

    Why did you even comment on this story, anyway?

  3. Re:LaTeX package? by iris-n · · Score: 4, Informative

    No but yes. What you need to use them now is XeTeX, a TeX engine that lets you use OpenType fonts in your TeX documents.

    LaTeX per se uses only Type 1 (actually a few more) fonts, and these aren't ready yet.

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