[OS X TeX] stix fonts?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 5, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 5, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Franck Pastor <franck.pastor at skynet.be> wrote:
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>> Le 5 janv. 2014 à 19:15, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> a écrit :
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>>> On Jan 5, 2014, at 11:58 AM, David Derbes <loki at uchicago.edu> wrote:
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>>>> Hi, Herb.
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>>>> I'm very slow to update, and am still running 10.6.8, and I think TeXLive 2009.  
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>>>> Does the newest version of TeXLive require a more recent version of OS X? And how does one invoke the STIX fonts? 
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>>>> I've been following development of the STIX fonts for many, many years. They don't look any better to me than what I've got now, but I'm curious nonetheless.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> David Derbes
>>>> U of Chicago Lab Schools
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> MacTeX 2013 supports OS X 10.5 and later so you can install it on your system.
>>> 
>>> I haven't used them yet but it seems that there is a stix package so invoking \usepackage{stix} should do the job although I have no idea what the options are. I'd also suggest using \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}.
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>> No need: the STIX package uses the T1 font encoding by default. Cf. the documentation's introduction, p. 2.
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>> "The stix package provides LATEX support for using STIX fonts in both text and math. The text fonts are
>> provided in both T1 (default) and OT1 encodings, as well as TS1 symbol font encoding, which cover only
>> a subset of Latin characters supported by STIX fonts."
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>> Franck Pastor
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> Howdy,
> 
> The documentation for the LaTeX support is not supplied with TeX Live (why?) but you can get it from CTAN, e.g., <http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/fonts/stix/doc/>.
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 

Howdy,

Hmmm... after looking at the ``documentation'' about the only really informative part was mentioned before; stix.sty uses T1 font encoding by default. Looking at stix.sty directly the options: notext, nomath, not1, notextcomp, lcgreekalpha and upint. I can guess what most of these mean but haven't checked in stix.sty yet.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)