Darren Dale wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2007 9:04:15 am Michael Droettboom wrote: >> I should also add -- it would be really nice to have STIX fonts working in >> the upcoming stable release if possible. Hopefully tomorrow morning I can >> assess how much work that will be and maybe delay tagging the release >> slightly so this can be worked through. It would be nice to remove the >> Computer Modern fonts (in mathtext only), but they still serve a niche in >> that they match the LaTeX fonts for users who can't/won't use usetex. So >> we're probably stuck with them for the long term even if STIX becomes a >> nicer/cleaner option. > > I haven't found sans-serif or monospaced fonts in their distribution. Maybe I > don't know where to look. I sent an email to the STIX website asking about > them, but havent heard back from them. I tried opening the fonts in > fontforge, and there are a lot of missing glyphs.
Unicode includes a "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols" range 1D400-1D7FF. The STIXGeneral font includes some (not all) sans-serif and monospaced Greek and Latin glyphs in that range. Mathtext won't actually use them yet, but doing so should be reasonably straightforward. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
