Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Nicholas and other people. > > I am only now getting up to date with my debian stuff. :-) Hi Rogério, > On May 31 2010, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >> Rogério Brito wrote: >>> Now, everybody can have MathML and Xe(La)TeX with these fonts. >> Yeah, looks like the long-awaited release of v1.0 has now happened: >> http://www.aip.org/press_release/stixfonts_v1.0_released.html >> >> Great news indeed! > > I will look into the feasibility of getting Khaled Hosny's XITS fonts > packaged on Debian. Looks like upstream 1.0 has already been packaged in oft-stix: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/otf-stix/otf-stix_1.0.0-1/changelog Getting Khaled Hosny's improved branch Debianized in a separate package would be very good. Thank you for taking care of that. > They are based on the STIX fonts (read the name backwards :-) ), they > support things that the regular release don't and he updates the fonts > quickly, responding to feedback from users. Yes, I agree that it's great to see such an active branch with the whole tree in a public DVCS and rapid open development happening, Kudos! And bidi as the inspiration for the name of the branch is quite clever :-) Very promising for users of advanced Math features. > On top of that, he knows a lot of the fonts stuff. Yes, he certainly does :-) >> BTW, Rogério, a quick remark on your recent blog post: >> s/Library/License/. > > Oh, sure. Thanks for the pointer. I will fix my post. BTW, nice that you > read it. :-) I try to keep up with all the interesting open font-related news! It's interesting to listen to your voice in the global conversation. >> The license and the library are distinct but thankfully the Library >> itself (OpenFontLibrary of OFLB) is making good progress too. > > I think that some of the scripts that I saw could be improved. But more > on that latter. Yet another ambitious task, your thoughts, energy and contributions welcome :-) > Regards, Rogério Brito. > Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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