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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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faq 3.20 (18aug10)
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@@ -13,14 +13,20 @@ support for new Web standards.
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<dt>Font technologies<dd> 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
(La)TeX to 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 HTML so generated.
-<p/> 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.
+<p/> Now, however, free Unicode-encoded OpenType fonts, with coverage of
+ mathematical symbols, are starting to appear. The much-heralded
+ <a href="http://www.stixfonts.org/">STIX fonts</a> seem to have
+ teetered on the point of general release for years, have now,
+ finally, been released (end May 2010). No &#8220;official&#8221; macro
+ support is yet available, but the fonts can be used in browsers.
+
+
+
<dt>XML<dd> The core of the range of new standards is
XML, which provides a framework for better structured markup;
limited support for it has already appeared in some browsers.
@@ -97,10 +103,10 @@ support for new Web standards.
(<i>Mathtex</i> supersedes the author&#8217;s earlier <i>mimetex</i>.)
</dl>
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>GELLMU</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/gellmu.zip">support/gellmu</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/gellmu/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>MathTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/mathtex/">support/mathtex/</a>
-<dt><tt><i>MimeTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/mimetex/">support/mimetex/</a>
-<dt><tt><i>TeX4HT</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/tex4ht-all.zip">support/TeX4ht/tex4ht-all.zip</a>
+<dt><tt><i>GELLMU</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/gellmu.zip">support/gellmu</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/gellmu/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/gellmu.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>MathTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mathtex">support/mathtex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/mathtex.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>MimeTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mimetex">support/mimetex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/mimetex.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>TeX4HT</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/TeX4ht/tex4ht-all.zip">support/TeX4ht/tex4ht-all.zip</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/tex4ht.html">catalogue entry</a>
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mathml">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mathml</a>
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