Hooray! There is hope for the future in typography! We have often wrestled here with the problems caused by the inability to represent special symbols in our email, on web pages, and the like. I have just read a NetWatch note in Science (28 June 2002) that led me to survey the information at http://www.stixfonts.org regarding the pending release of a new, huge font set. I will not try to answer all the questions that are readily available with their answers on that web site, but some neat features of this promised product stand out: 1. It will be made freely available, with licensing requiring only an agreement not to modify the fonts. 2. It will be compatible with Adobe Type 1 and OpenType fonts. 3. It will be in the "Times" family. 4. It will be available in four faces: regular upright, regular italic, bold upright, bold italic. 5. It will be ported almost immediately to TeX. 6. It will be compatible with MathML. 7. It can be incorporated into browsers either directly or as a plug-in. 8. It will provide over 7700 glyphs, enabling the writing of techinical documents (web, paper, electronic) in one font set, thus avoiding the requirement to mix font sets with the hope that all the readers have all those fonts in their machines. 9. It will be completed this fall, with release sometime in 2003. 10. It is totally funded and sponsored by the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Physics Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Mathematical Society, and Elsevier Publishers. 11. This font set is expected to cover all the needs for publication in scientific, medical, engineering, and mathematical fields.
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