[XeTeX] (Off-topic) STIX Fonts

[Michael Lynch]

On 30/05/2010 15:37, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 2010-05-30 23:20:07 +0930, Michael Lynch 
> <michael.s.lynch at googlemail.com> said:
>
>> Does anyone know any more about the project? Has the math feature
>> definitely been delayed until a future version?
>
> Yep, the intial release has always been about glyph coverage and 
> kerning. As they say, OpenType features will come next.
>
> The fonts will still be very useful for accessing maths glyphs. I'm 
> about to release a package "unicode-math" that will allow access to 
> these fonts. (Although there will be some limitations due to the lack 
> of OpenType features.)
>
> Khaled Hosny has put together an OpenType version of STIX here:
>  http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math
>
> I'm going to test it out soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Will
>
>
>
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Hi,

I'll look forward to the next release. I actually brought it up here 
because I was interested in using it with unicode-math—excepting Word 
2007 and Office 2010, I don't know of anything else that uses the 
OpenType math features. (It's also why I'm asking the off-topic question 
here. XeTeX with unicode-math users are probably the best group to ask!)

Thanks, I'd only heard of Khaled Hosny's Neo Euler before, so the 
pointer to XITS Math is helpful. This seems to do what I want, though 
presumably it's less complete than STIX with some of the glyphs not 
fully up to date/missing.

If you were to use the STIX fonts in the meantime, given the lack of 
OpenType features in the STIX release, does it make more sense to use 
mathspec instead of unicode-math? I was under the impression that 
unicode-math was exclusively designed for working with “proper” OpenType 
math fonts.

Regards,

Mike