[XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 08:28:08PM -0700, wodzicki at math.berkeley.edu wrote:
> > 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
> 
> "...to support every exotic use case and font combination..."
> 
> Let's start from the fact, that there are barely 4 usable Math fonts at
> the moment. And I count among these four your enhancement to STIXGeneral.
> And only one out of these 4 begs for such an option to the 'fontspec'.
> 
> The second fact is: using XITS for Math and STIX for text is anything but
> 'every exotic use and font combination'.
> 
> An impression is as if you really don't care about people who will be
> using XITS. I am one of those willing not only to use it but also to
> spread the word about it. So, I care about providing a convenient
> interface, like \setmainfont{}, for the possible users. If I cared only
> about myself, I wouldn't waste time writing about it and begging for your
> attention.

You can now grap the four styles from git tree:
http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math

No proper release yet, but if no serious bugs appeared in the next 24
hours, I'll make one.

For text use "XITS", and "XITS Math" for math.

Regards,
 Khaled

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