Re: [NTG-context] STIX vs XITS

On 17 Jun 2017, at 13:03, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 6/17/2017 10:30 AM, Hans Åberg wrote:

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It says that XITS is an OpenType version of STIX on [1], but the latter now supports it. Does that mean that one can now use the latter directly? 1. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_fonts i don't know as i never use those fonts in documents; maybe the design is different; is xits maintained, that is the question ...

The glyphs should be the same.

\usemodule[math-repertoire]

\showmathcharacterssetbodyfonts{xits,stixtwo,modern,pagella,termes,bonum,schola,dejavu}

\starttext \showmathfontrepertoire \stoptext

some chars in stixtwo are smaller, some larger, so not compatible

It is different font, so not compatible. Of the other fonts, STIX has very tall and narrow integral signs. There, Pagella looks better, but has strange looking Greek italic. There, Termes is even better, and nice weight on the sums, but has very narrow universal quantifiers. It has otherwise a nice weight in text boldface. Bonum has strange open Greek letters, and very thin, weird looking summation sign. I looked for serif DejaVu monospace, but could not find it: sans-serif thought to aid low resolution screens, but one is switching now.