Re: Stix beta fonts released

[email protected] wrote on 10/31/2007 11:41:17 PM:


> Further, a set of chemical symbols and some other characters have been 
> added - these are not unifiable and should have been requested perhaps 
> by the STIX group for encoding. The only reason that I can see why that 
> wasn't done is that the collaboration with Unicode involved the 
> mathematicians, not the chemists, so nobody could speak with authority 
> on how some of these symbols were used in text.

There is an interesting article by Barbara Beeton called "The STIX Project 
-- From Unicode to fonts" in the latest TUGboat, Vol 28 (2007), No. 3. The 
online version appears to only be available to members: 
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents28-3.html. However, Barbara 
says 'What wasn't accepted, and why not?: In spite of the generally high 
level of acceptance of characters proposed by STIX, the UTC rejected some 
symbols. The reason for most rejections was that they weren't "math". 
Symbols used by other disciplines (astronomy, meteorology) were not 
considered to be relevant to the STIX request; it was suggested than an 
organization involved in those disciplines should make a separate 
submission, at which time it would be considered on its own merits.'

Lorna