Re: STIX fonts delayed?

I fear it is a forever delayed project....

Xmlizer


On 1/31/07, William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
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> I found the "update notice", dated 23 January, that is appended below
> at http://www.stixfonts.org/.
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>                                    -- Bill
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>      STIX Fonts Project Update
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>      Design Review Continues; Remaining Packaging
>      Issues Will Delay Beta Release
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>      Parallel efforts continue on completing the design review and
>      resolving packaging issues.  A re-alignment of glyphs into
>      separate fonts for Unicode glyphs and non-Unicode glyphs has
>      solved many of the open issues, but problems with getting
>      browsers to properly display Plane 1 glyphs (the math alphabets)
>      remain.  We are getting some assistance from Microsoft and
>      Firefox, but so far these issues are not resolved.  We do not
>      want to release the beta fonts until we have answers to these
>      questions.  It now appears that the earliest that we will be
>      able to release the beta test version is near the end of
>      February.  A further update with more details will be provided
>      the week of 29 January.
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>      This site was last updated on January 23, 2007.  We will make
>      every effort to provide weekly updates until the beta test fonts
>      are released.
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>      Please direct any questions to the STIX Fonts project
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