No, I didn't see anything there either, but the fonts should be scalable, which means to me that you can specify them in cubits and gnat-whiskers if your software supports those units.
The fonts are being designed "from scratch". Some but not all of Elsevier's ESSTIX font glyphs may be incorporated. Jim On Saturday, 2002 July 06 1356, kilopascal wrote: > 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
