[XeTeX] STIX Fonts

[Ralf Stubner]

Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> writes:
> On 13 Jul 2006, at 4:24 pm, Faisal Moledina wrote:
[...]
>> I can't wait for the beta.  Very exciting, in my opinion!
>>
>> http://www.stixfonts.org

I wouldn't hold my breath. Similar announcements have appeared before.

> This might be a suitable moment to mention that XeTeX 0.995, when it  
> appears, will include new extensions allowing Unicode character codes  
> to be used as math characters. \XeTeXmathcharcode, \XeTeXmathchardef,  
> etc. will allow access to any Unicode character supported by an  
> OpenType math font, and to an increased number of math families. So  
> it may become possible to use the STIX fonts in Unicode-encoded  
> OpenType form.

Will it be possible to get the math characters from a different font? I
think the STIX fonts will include glyphs suitable for text processing,
too, but it might be interesting to mix it with some other text font.  

cheerio
ralf