STIX Fonts project

Infobox font
name = STIX
style = Various


classifications = Transitional
prop = Proportional
date = 2008
commissioned_by = STIX Pub
foundry = MicroPress and others|Infobox font
name = ESSTIX
style = Various


classifications = Transitional
prop = Proportional
date = 2000
commissioned_by = Elsevier
foundry = Elsevier|The STIX Fonts project is a project sponsored by several leading scientific and technical publishers to provide, under royalty-free license, a comprehensive font set of mathematical symbols and alphabets, intended to serve the scientific and engineering community for electronic and print publication. The STIX fonts is available as fully hinted OpenType/CFF fonts. There is currently no plans by the STIX Pub to provide a TrueType version, with the note that software such as Java should instead add OpenType support. [ [http://www.stixfonts.org/feedback-glyphs.html Analysis of Feedback Received from Testers: Missing Unicode/Glyph Feedback Received Regarding STIX Fonts] ] However there exists an unofficial conversion of STIX Fonts (from the beta version release) to TrueType, suitable for use with software without OpenType support. [ [http://olegueret.googlepages.com/stixfonts-ttf STIX Fonts - TTF (True Type)] ]

STIX fonts also include [Barbara Beeton, "STIX fonts and Unicode", talk at TUG 2007 [http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/tug2007/media/Barbara_Beeton video] ] natural language glyphs for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Among the glyphs in STIX, 32.9% have been contributed by the project members. The commercial TeX vendor and TeX font foundry MicroPress has been contracted to create the additional glyphs. The STIX project will also create a TeX implementation. Goals also include incorporating the characters into Unicode, and ensuring that browsers can use them.

Members of the STIX (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange) Fonts project, known collectively as the STI Pub consortium, include the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Mathematical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society, and Elsevier.

According to the web site

cquote|The Font contents were assembled from a list of every character/glyph required for publication in the journals of the participating STI Pub companies. Every scientific discipline is represented in this list, as well as many other fields from the arts and humanities.

Most of the glyphs in the STIX Fonts have been designed in Times-compatible style. In addition to Times-compatible glyphs, some portions of the STIX Fonts include other design styles such as sans serif, monospace, Fraktur, Script, and calligraphic.

A beta version of the fonts was released on October 31, 2007. This version does not include enough of the OpenType mathematical layout features present in Cambria Math, so it is not usable in Microsoft Office 2007 [Murray Sargent, (Nov. 6, 2007) [http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2007/11/06/stix-beta-fonts.aspx STIX Beta Fonts] ] . The Latin glyph set included in the beta version does not yet cover all the characters required to typeset in Eastern European languages.

"Final design changes" were declared "complete" at the project website on 9 June 2008.

ESSTIX

A precursor to the STIX project is the ESSTIX (Elsevier Science STIX) font, developed and later donated by Elsevier. It is currently available from the World Wide Web Consortium as part of the Amaya web browser ( [http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/FAQ.html#XFonts] ).

References

External links

* [http://www.stixfonts.org/ STIX Fonts project official site]
* [http://www.ams.org/STIX/ American Mathematical Society's STIX project site] (outdated)
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/279b173169de9e57/ A newsgroup post pertaining to the project's release schedule]