[XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:02:15PM -0700, wodzicki at math.berkeley.edu wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:52:13PM -0700, wodzicki at math.berkeley.edu
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm actually planning to include the rest of STIX styles in some later
> >> > release, STIX surpasses Termes in its Greek and Cyrillic coverage.
> >> >
> >> > If there is a real demand, I can do it earlier, but the only
> >> improvement
> >> > I see over regular STIX will be fractions and oldstyle figures.
> >>
> >> I think it's worth doing it, considering how little work it would
> >> involve.
> >> Then XITS would become a complete font.
> >>
> >> In my original post in this thread I suggested that Will just
> >> temporarily
> >> add to 'fontspec' an option that
> >>
> >> \setmainfont{XITS Math}
> >>
> >> means: load XITS Math for upright Roman, and STIXGeneral for everything
> >> else.
> >
> > You can already do that, check the manual for selecting arbitrary italic
> > and bold fonts.
> >
> > --
> >  Khaled Hosny
> 
> I know *that*. But it's cumbersome. It defeats one of the advantages of
> using 'fontspec'; one would like to use just one versatile
> \setmainfont[...]{...} and not to separately declare fonts for each shape
> one-by-one.

But it is defiantly better than patching fontspec to support every
exotic use case and font combination, also fontspec does much more than
auto-selecting different font weights.

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer