New science formula STIX Fonts Project Completes Design Phase

So it's a contribution, but yet they don't
have a TeX version. Sounds like a too-late,
too-little project to me.

It would be more useful if their implementation
allowed interactive changes in computation by
the readers.

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STIX Fonts Project Completes Design Phase

Melville, NY, October 31, 2007 - A group of scientific publishers
today announced the release of the full complement of the Scientific
and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) Fonts in a beta test
version. This free, comprehensive set of special characters - mainly
mathematical or scientific - represents a significant breakthrough in
scientific, technical, and medical publishing. Following a short beta
test period, the final production release of the STIX Fonts should
occur before the end of 2007.

The successful completion of the STIX Fonts project will alleviate the
need for publishers to assemble symbols from a variety of fonts. When
posted to a Web site, documents using the STIX Fonts will be properly
rendered, regardless of the fonts installed on a particular computer,
saving editors' valuable time.

The six publishers that collaborated to design, fund and manage the
STIX project include the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American
Institute of Physics (AIP), the American Mathematical Society (AMS),
the American Physical Society (APS), Elsevier, and the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The beta version can be
downloaded from the STIX Fonts web site at
[24]http://www.stixfonts.org.

The technical development of the STIX Fonts Project was handled by
MicroPress, Inc., a respected font designer, which has created and
delivered nearly 8,000 characters/glyphs required for these
comprehensive fonts. Glyphs designed by Elsevier for an earlier
project push the final glyph total to 8,047.

"Given the scope of this ambitious undertaking, it's not surprising
that completion of the STIX Fonts project took more than 10 years,
more than one million dollars in donated staff time, and the combined
efforts of a half dozen well-respected scholarly publishers," said
Fran Zappulla, Staff Director, IEEE Publishing Operations. "The end
result is a font set that is the most comprehensive of its kind,
encompassing so many sub-ranges of the Unicode(TM) standard and
enabling data to be transferred securely through many different
systems without corruption."

.....By making the fonts freely available, the STIX project hopes to
encourage the development of widespread applications that make use of
these fonts. In particular the STIX project will create a TEX
implementation that TEX users can install and configure with minimal
effort. TEX is a computer language designed for typesetting, with
particular application to mathematics and other technical material.
The TEX version of the fonts is being developed by a sub-contractor,
and should be available soon after the production version is released.

For more information visit the STIX Fonts web site at
[25]http://www.stixfonts.org