Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

It turns out that STIX beta fonts have a modicum of MATH table (it didn't occur to me check), but not math script support. Because of the MATH table, STIXGeneral gets recognized as math font in Office 2007, but it doesn't really work; as soon as you type anything, you get Cambria Math instead. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2007/11/06/stix-beta-fonts.aspx. Also, the way the STIX fonts are spread across multiple otf files doesn't work with any typesetting software; but hey, if you just want to gawk at the glyphs with unicode.org's unibook viewer, it's fine. $ otfinfo -t /usr/share/fonts/stix/STIXGeneral.otf 251327 CFF 28 FFTM 30 GDEF 242 MATH 96 OS/2 4346 cmap 54 head 36 hhea 10026 hmtx 6 maxp 6393 name 32 post 572 prop $ otfinfo -s /usr/share/fonts/stix/STIXGeneral.otf <<nothing>> $ otfinfo -t /usr/share/fonts/asana-math/asana-math.otf 354717 CFF 28 FFTM 30 GDEF 80 GPOS 1268 GSUB 12168 MATH 96 OS/2 2262 cmap 44 feat 54 head 36 hhea 12076 hmtx 6 maxp 128 morx 15289 name 32 post 542 prop $ otfinfo -s /usr/share/fonts/asana-math/asana-math.otf DFLT Default grek Greek latn Latin math <unknown script> $ otfinfo -f --script=math /usr/share/fonts/asana-math/asana-math.otf dtls <unknown feature> onum Oldstyle Figures salt Stylistic Alternates ssty <unknown feature> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > The STIX fonts do **NOT** currently have the math OpenType script. > What this means is that they have nice collection of glyphs, but no > special layout features, so they're pretty useless for actually > typesetting something with them. The math script, aka MATH table, is a > MS extension to OpenType. MS has not yet officially submitted any > documentation for these math layout extensions -- and they are quite > extensive -- not even in the draft 1.5/1.6 OpenType spec. Despite > this, it is the de-facto OpenType math standard, and support for it > has appeared in FOSS projects. > > These extensions are implemented only in the Cambria Math font (MS), > and now in Asana Math (FOSS). Fonts using these extensions are > currenly usable only in MS Office 2007 (and some other minor non-FOSS > products), but out of the FOSS world only XeTeX supports them right > now. LuaTeX is scheduled to add support by the end of this year, > together with the release of the GUST Math font. > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams > <ivazqueznet(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 05:41 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote: >>> It's nice to see that the first (& only?) FOSS OpenType math font, >> >> STIXFonts? Well, not quite FOSS yet, but soon hopefully... >> >> http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html >> >> -- >> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet(a)gmail.com&gt; >> >