Hi all, you might be interested in hearing that there is a new there is a new version of the STIX fonts (since 1h ago) - or rather a beta version: 1.1.0-beta1. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/files/STIXv1.1.0-beta1.zip/downloa... "The beta period will remain open until December 1, 2011." - Thus, one has still 5 months time to comment on the bugs. (Or are that two moths? With STIX ETA one never knows ...) As reminder: STIX fonts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project) are a large collection of Times-like math fonts, created by several publishing houses in a rather slow process. A year ago, 1.0 was relased and now with 1.1b1 is finally released. Seemingly, one can now use it directly such that one does not need the XITS fonts anymore. (Cf. http://typophile.com/node/71171) From the release notes: "What is new in this release? The original Version 1.0 STIX was packaged as 29 distinct font files. Version 1.1.0-‐beta1 provides the same set of glyphs packaged as a set of 4 text fonts and 1 symbol font. This new packaging will facilitate the use of the font on more desktop applications, and will specifically allow the symbol font to be used in recent versions of the Microsoft Word Equation Editor." "In addition, an update was made to address compatibility issues between the font set and the Windows PostScript driver." Besides those changes, some a (very) few glyphs have been added and some smaller changes have been done. Tobias
On 7-10-2011 15:53, Tobias Burnus wrote:
you might be interested in hearing that there is a new there is a new version of the STIX fonts (since 1h ago) - or rather a beta version: 1.1.0-beta1. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/files/STIXv1.1.0-beta1.zip/downloa...
"The beta period will remain open until December 1, 2011." - Thus, one has still 5 months time to comment on the bugs. (Or are that two moths? With STIX ETA one never knows ...)
As reminder: STIX fonts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project) are a large collection of Times-like math fonts, created by several publishing houses in a rather slow process. A year ago, 1.0 was relased and now with 1.1b1 is finally released. Seemingly, one can now use it directly such that one does not need the XITS fonts anymore. (Cf. http://typophile.com/node/71171)
well, my impression is that stix does not care too much about tex and aims at msword so I'd rather stick to xits (which has some interesting extras anyway) .. i wonder if they ever consulted Khaled or any of the gyre font folks or engine developers or ...
From the release notes:
"What is new in this release? The original Version 1.0 STIX was packaged as 29 distinct font files. Version 1.1.0-‐beta1 provides the same set of glyphs packaged as a set of 4 text fonts and 1 symbol font. This new packaging will facilitate the use of the font on more desktop applications, and will specifically allow the symbol font to be used in recent versions of the Microsoft Word Equation Editor."
'symbol font' .. an interesting way to refer to a math font
"In addition, an update was made to address compatibility issues between the font set and the Windows PostScript driver."
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:24:19PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
"In addition, an update was made to address compatibility issues between the font set and the Windows PostScript driver."
hm
Was some faulty OS/2 (the font table not the other thing) code pages setting that affects printing from MS Worf, fixed in XITS last April. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
On 7-10-2011 15:53, Tobias Burnus wrote:
Hi all,
you might be interested in hearing that there is a new there is a new version of the STIX fonts (since 1h ago) - or rather a beta version: 1.1.0-beta1. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/files/STIXv1.1.0-beta1.zip/downloa...
"The beta period will remain open until December 1, 2011." - Thus, one has still 5 months time to comment on the bugs. (Or are that two moths? With STIX ETA one never knows ...)
As reminder: STIX fonts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project) are a large collection of Times-like math fonts, created by several publishing houses in a rather slow process. A year ago, 1.0 was relased and now with 1.1b1 is finally released. Seemingly, one can now use it directly such that one does not need the XITS fonts anymore. (Cf. http://typophile.com/node/71171)
From the release notes:
"What is new in this release? The original Version 1.0 STIX was packaged as 29 distinct font files. Version 1.1.0-‐beta1 provides the same set of glyphs packaged as a set of 4 text fonts and 1 symbol font. This new packaging will facilitate the use of the font on more desktop applications, and will specifically allow the symbol font to be used in recent versions of the Microsoft Word Equation Editor."
"In addition, an update was made to address compatibility issues between the font set and the Windows PostScript driver."
Besides those changes, some a (very) few glyphs have been added and some smaller changes have been done.
For the bored ... \starttypescript [math] [stix] [name] \definefontsynonym[MathRoman][file:stixmath-regular.otf] [features=math] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [stix] [name] \setups[font:fallback:serif] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [file:stix-regular.otf] [features=default] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [file:stix-bold.otf] [features=default] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [file:stix-italic.otf] [features=default] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][file:stix-bolditalic.otf][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[stix] \definetypeface [stix] [rm] [serif] [stix] [default] \definetypeface [stix] [mm] [math] [stix] [default] \stoptypescript \usemodule[mat-12] \setmathfontlistbodyfonts{cambria,modern,xits,stix} \starttext % \setupbodyfont[xits,12pt] \showmathfontcharacters \setupbodyfont[stix,12pt] \showmathfontcharacters \stoptext or \setuplayout [backspace=1cm, topspace=1cm, header=1cm, footer=1cm, width=middle, height=middle] \usemodule[mat-11] \starttext \setupbodyfont[stix,12pt] \showmathfontcharacters \stoptext or: \usemodule[fnt-33] \starttext \setupbodyfont[stix] \ShowMathAlphabetCoverage \ShowMathCharacterCoverage \stoptext or (quite different extra glyph lists, see private area): \setupbodyfont[modern] \usemodule[fnt-31] \startluacode fonts.tracers.coverage { "cambria.ttc(Cambria Math)", "xits-math.otf", "stixmath-regular.otf", "lmmath-regular", } \stopluacode so Khaled might be tempted to add the few new shapes to xits Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 7-10-2011 19:56, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
so Khaled might be tempted to add the few new shapes to xits
I'm working on an update already, at least to get glyph fixes in.
don't forget to add a feature: 'stix' => 'xits' (ss10 contextual alternate or so) so that users can swap in xits and have their preamble right: "this document is typeset using the stix=>xits fonts" Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 08:14:34PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 7-10-2011 19:56, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
so Khaled might be tempted to add the few new shapes to xits
I'm working on an update already, at least to get glyph fixes in.
don't forget to add a feature: 'stix' => 'xits' (ss10 contextual alternate or so) so that users can swap in xits and have their preamble right:
"this document is typeset using the stix=>xits fonts"
Haha, I like that :D Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
Am 07.10.2011 um 19:56 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
so Khaled might be tempted to add the few new shapes to xits
I'm working on an update already, at least to get glyph fixes in.
Do you plan to convert more math fonts (e.g. mathdesign) into the opentype format? Wolfgang
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 05:19:30PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 07.10.2011 um 19:56 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:24:24PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
so Khaled might be tempted to add the few new shapes to xits
I'm working on an update already, at least to get glyph fixes in.
Do you plan to convert more math fonts (e.g. mathdesign) into the opentype format?
I do, but I've a rather long TODO list (last month a ticked off an item that sat on top of it for the last 4 years :p). I'm interested in a Charter math companion, but mathdesign is under GPL which can be problematic if one wants to borrow glyphs from one of the increasing number of fonts licensed under OFL. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
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