News
December 21, 2009
A release candidate package of the STIX Fonts has been released to the STI Pub Technical Review Committee for a final check. The target for making a decision about release is 10 January. If no problems are reported from these final tests, the release date could follow within one week. Please do not request test copies; the fonts will not be distributed further until a release decision is made. The STIX Fonts will be released under the SIL Open Font License. Text of the license is available here.
October 27, 2009
We have discovered many missing glyphs in the non-Unicode fonts (Unicode Private Use Area. Resolution of these problems is still being investigated. We will post a revised target for release date as soon as the missing glyphs have been replaced.
We have received many requests for current copies or beta versions of the fonts but we are unable to supply anything until the final version. Our goal is to release the production version (OpenType fonts with Type 1 font information) some time during the last half of October. Advanced OpenType support (allowing the fonts to work with Office 2007 applications) will be released later this year, followed soon by LaTeX support.
September 29, 2009
The Unicode Technical Committee’s recent meeting led to a recommendation that STI Pub release the fonts with no further changes to the Private Use Area (non-Unicode glyph zone). While the UTC is likely to approve many of the glyphs currently in the PUA for Unicode value assignment, that action will not take place for several more months. Accordingly, we have moved to the final packaging stage. We expect to have the fonts available for a brief final check by the STIX Technical Review Committee (TRC) prior to release within the next 30 days.
August 6, 2009
The STIX Fonts Technical Review Committee has completed final testing of the candidate production version. The fonts will be packaged for release as soon as we receive word from the Unicode Technical Committee regarding their review of the non-Unicode glyphs from the font that currently make use of the Private Use Area of Unicode. As many as 125 of the nearly 350 glyphs may be given Unicode code points or variant status. The UTC meeting is next week.
We have received many requests for current copies or beta versions of the fonts but we are unable to supply anything until the final version. Our goal is to release the production version (OpenType fonts with Type 1 font information) before the end of September. Advanced OpenType support (allowing the fonts to work with Office 2007 applications) will be released later this year, followed soon by LaTeX support.
<March 13, 2009
Near the end of February the candidate production version of the STIX Fonts was distributed to the STIX Technical Review Committee for final testing and approval. This version is based on the file organization of the beta test version but with many of the variant glyphs moved from the non-Unicode font files to the Unicode files using variant encodings. Details of the revisions will be made available during the final testing period. The target date for final release of this production version is end of May 2009. Work will then begin on a production release containing advanced OpenType features that will be capable of being used with applications like Office 2007. At the same time, we will begin work on a version that will provide LaTeX support.
