[OS X TeX] stix fonts?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 4, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Gary L. Gray <glgray at me.com> wrote:

>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>> From: "Gary L. Gray" <glgray at me.com>
>> Subject: [OS X TeX] stix fonts?
>> Date: January 4, 2014 at 10:37:29 AM EST
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> 
>> This morning, I tried, for the first time, to use the stix fonts with LaTeX. Unfortunately, pdflatex cannot find stix.sty. After some digging around, I see that the fonts themselves are all part of TeX Live 2013, but other stix support files are nowhere to be found. Is this by design? Do I need to install the support files in my local tree and enable stix manually?
> 
> Possibly answering my own question, I see that on Jan 2, STIX 1.1.1 was released with the following description: 
> 
>> In addition to updating the OpenType version of the STIX fonts
>> to version 1.1.1 for use with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, it provides
>> a new packaging of the STIX fonts suitable for use with LaTeX
>> based on the previously released Version 1.1.0 glyph set. This
>> package is provided by the STI Pub publishers who maintain the
>> STIX fonts.
> 
> It looks like this means that this update will add LaTeX support files. It hasn’t shown up yet in TLU for me, so I guess I will just wait.
> 
> Gary

Howdy,

I looked for them too but they didn't seem to be delivered via TLU/tlmgr today.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)