On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 03:57:53AM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > On 2010-06-06 02:54:13 +0930, Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> > said: > > >Will Robertson wrote: > >>On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen > >><ee...@eelis.net> said: > >> > >>>If so, to what extent would this make XITS obsolete? > >> > >>Depends how good a job they do :) > > > >And whether the current STIX release schedule is reliable. Judging > >from past results, it is altogether possible that v1.1 won't be > >ready for release for half a decade yet. > > > I'm a little sensitive to calling people out on missed deadlines...
But missing every stated deadline in 5 years (more?) is a bit special you know. I've been missing every stated deadline for releasing my Arabic font for a couple of years now myself, but I either state those deadlines privately or not at all, not publish them in the front page of my website. I appreciate all the effort put into STIX and the fact it was eventually released under free/libre font license, but they should have learnt a lesson from the always missed deadlines... > anyway, if this ends up being true then they may as well commission > Khaled to do the job for them :) One thing that I'd like to do, giving enough incentive, is to convert XITS into a set of Type1 and TFM fonts for use with legacy TeX engines. It can be fairly automated; read the font in FontForge, map MATH to TeX properties and write back a set of subset Type1 fonts and corresponding PL files, but I don't feel like investing time in learning obsolete technologies (Type1, TFM, PL, LaTeX math etc.), so, apart from the potential large number of people who would benefit from it, there is no much incentive. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
