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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: STIX fonts beta released
From:       Martin Pfeiffer <hubipete () gmx ! net>
Date:       2007-11-01 14:17:17
Message-ID: 200711011517.17638.hubipete () gmx ! net
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Sounds interesting indeed, I would like to include the font as an secondary 
option, when there are no problems with licensing.
Bye M.

On Thursday 01 November 2007 14:01:19 Alfredo Beaumont wrote:
> 2007/11/1, Benjamin K. Stuhl <benjamin.stuhl@colorado.edu>:
> > All,
> >   This may be of interest to at least the KFormula folks: the
> > long-awaited STIX font project has released the beta version of their
> > fonts. The STIX fonts are a Unicode-based font set which is supposed to
> > include every glyph required for scientific, mathematical, and
> > technical publishing; it's license is supposed to be compatible with
> > the SIL Open Font License and (IIRC) the DFSG... it might be a good
> > default font for KFormula? (And has the profound advantage that it's a
> > _full_ font, not just math glyphs, so you can typeset an entire
> > document in it and so not have your math look out of place.) If you're
> > interested, the web site is www.stixfonts.org.
>
> Thanks for the info. It seems that their license is now more free, so I
> think we should ask both FSF and Debian people what they think about it, I
> see point 5 of their license may still be conflictive, but I have no idea.
> In case the license is good enough, I think we should package it with
> KFormula when it's out, otherwise we should still maintain current font and
> let either the distro or the user to install stix if they want (from
> 1.6STIX fonts should just work as any other Unicode font, so the user
> has
> always the chance to install the font and select it from kformula).
>
> Cheers


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