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The XITS font project is an 
Version 1.011 announcement
/ref>). * General OpenType features in text fonts (Kerning, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Small Caps, and Inferior, Superior and Oldstyle Figures).
XITS font project official site
XITS
at
OpenType
OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior. OpenType is a registered trademark ...
implementation of STIX fonts version 1.x with math support for mathematical and scientific publishing. The main mission of the Times
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events, and a fundamental quantity of measuring systems.
Time or times may also refer to:
Temporal measurement
* Time in physics, defined by its measurement
* Time standard, civil time specific ...
-like XITS typeface is to provide a version of STIX fonts enriched with the OpenType MATH
OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures for prescribing typographic behavior. OpenType is a registered trademark ...
extension.
Features
* OpenType mathematical layout features needed for use with new formula editor in MS Office 2007 and the newTeX
Tex may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname
* Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr.
Entertainment
* ''Tex'', the Italian ...
engines XeTeX
XeTeX (
or ; see also Pronouncing and writing "TeX") is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType, Graphite and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT). It was originally written by Jonathan K ...
and LuaTeX
LuaTeX is a TeX-based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with a Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it was adopted by the TeX Live distribution as a successor to pdfTeX (itself an extension of ε-TeX, ...
, providing high quality mathematical typesetting.
* Right to left and Arabic mathematical notation support (since version 1.011/ref>). * General OpenType features in text fonts (Kerning, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Small Caps, and Inferior, Superior and Oldstyle Figures).
See also
* STIX Fonts project *Unicode typefaces
A Unicode font is a computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard. The vast majority of modern computer fonts use Unicode mappings, even those fonts which only include glyphs for a single writing system, or even only ...
* List of fonts
Other OpenType fonts with mathematical layout extensions:
* Asana Math
* Latin Modern Math
XITS is shipped with:
* TeX Live
TeX Live is a cross-platform, free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. It is the replacement of its no-longer supported counterpart teTeX.
It is now the defa ...
References
External links
XITS font project official site
XITS
at
CTAN
CTAN (an acronym for "Comprehensive TeX Archive Network") is the authoritative place where TeX related material and software can be found for download. Repositories for other projects, such as the MiKTeX distribution of TeX, constantly mirror most ...
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Open-source typefaces
Free software Unicode typefaces
Greek typefaces
Symbol typefaces
Mathematical OpenType typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2010