I forgot to include the fact that STIX will be Unicode-compatible. Jim
On Saturday, 2002 July 06 1343, James Frysinger wrote: > 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
