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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-09-09 00:14:44 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-09-09 00:14:44 +0000
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parent0ce2c8b8193308d090a2c319fae8e6b6b348d62a (diff)
faq 3.20 (18aug10)
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% $Id: faq-projects.tex,v 1.9 2010/04/06 18:35:09 rf10 Exp rf10 $
+% $Id: faq-projects.tex,v 1.12 2010/06/02 23:10:24 rf10 Exp rf10 $
\section{Current \TeX{}-related projects}
@@ -57,15 +57,21 @@ support for new Web standards.
\begin{description}
\item[Font technologies] Direct representation of mathematics in
browsers has been hampered up to now by the limited range of symbols
- in the fonts one can rely on being available. Some existing
+ in the fonts whose availability designers can count on. Some existing
\AllTeX{} to \acro{HTML} converters provide maths symbols by
hitching them to alternate font face specifications for standard
code points in a non-standard way. This does nothing for the
universality of the \acro{HTML} so generated.
-
- In the near future, we can expect rather wide availability of
- Unicode fonts with good coverage of symbols, which should make life
- easier for those who need to represent mathematics.
+
+ Now, however, free Unicode-encoded OpenType fonts, with coverage of
+ mathematical symbols, are starting to appear. The much-heralded
+ \href{http://www.stixfonts.org/}{\acro{STIX} fonts} seem to have
+ teetered on the point of general release for years, have now,
+ finally, been released (end May 2010). No ``official'' macro
+ support is yet available, but the fonts can be used in browsers.
+%% In the near future, we can expect rather wide availability of
+%% Unicode fonts with good coverage of symbols, which should make life
+%% easier for those who need to represent mathematics.
\item[\acro{XML}] The core of the range of new standards is
\acro{XML}, which provides a framework for better structured markup;
limited support for it has already appeared in some browsers.
@@ -531,6 +537,7 @@ interface language designed for \Package{biblatex}, including use of
Unicode to ease the generation of multilingual citations.
\begin{ctanrefs}
\item[amsrefs.sty]\CTANref{amsrefs}
+\item[biber]\CTANref{biber}
\item[biblatex.sty]\CTANref{biblatex}
\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}biblatex contributions]\CTANref{biblatex-contrib}
\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}CrossTeX]\CTANref{crosstex}