Free STIX Fonts to be Released in September 27
tbspit writes "The STIX fonts project has announced that version 1.0 of the STIX fonts should be released in September 2005. The comprehensive font set is to include mathematical symbols and alphabets, and is intended to serve the scientific and engineering community for electronic and print publication. The STIX fonts should be available as fully hinted Type 1 and True Type fonts. The STIX project will also create a TeX implementation. Progress towards release can be monitored here."
Use MathML fonts (Score:3, Informative)
They are freely downloadable (free as in beer), and they have the backing of being used and tested by the Mozilla foundation.
Re:But does it support unicode ?. (Score:5, Informative)
So based on the sound of it, this will work in different languages using unicode.
Re:Use MathML fonts (Score:5, Informative)
MathML-enabled Mozilla uses the MIT fonts, but it first maps them to the right entities. This happens in the code because the fonts, although free, are not to be touched or redistributed. Without the right mapping the fonts are useless, and for anything other than standalone applications you cannot perform such a mapping. So I think that you might be forgetting that the main focus of MathML is the Web not standalone applications. The CSS "font-*" attributes don't allow characters to be mapped to different fonts so I doubt that the MIT fonts are of any real use on the Web (unless you are targeting only the users of MathML-enabled Mozilla).
Re:How long does it usually take? (Score:5, Informative)
Computer Modern was designed over about 12 years.
Of course, Knuth was working on other things (notably Metafont and TeX) in that period as well.
Re:What do they look like? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What do they look like? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How long does it usually take? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Bold (Score:1, Informative)