2002-07-06 I didn't see anything on the site that told me whether the font sizes will be in rational metric or continue to be FFU. This new project seems to be a method of combining all the different styles and characters into one big superset.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2002-07-06 13:43 Subject: [USMA:20857] STIX fonts > 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. > > Jim > > -- > James R. Frysinger > Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist > Senior Member, IEEE > > http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Office: > Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer > Dept. of Physics and Astronomy > University/College of Charleston > 66 George Street > Charleston, SC 29424 > 843.953.7644 (phone) > 843.953.4824 (FAX) > > Home: > 10 Captiva Row > Charleston, SC 29407 > 843.225.0805 >
