THE MICROSOFT CLEARTYPE FONT COLLECTION
The ClearType Font Collection is the result of a successful
collaboration of designers and engineers, working together
with respect a nd fl exibil ity a nd curiosity. Every typeface,
from t he first days of Gutenberg, has been a combination
of solutions to aesthetic and tech nical proble ms; but t he
ClearType fo nts, unlike some compromise s a nd ad a ptatio ns
in mo de rn typeface design, we re conce ived from t he outset
as a marriage of technology and the best in design expertise.
The current release of this package typesets mathematics with unicode input and using OpenType maths fonts. (There is little compatibility with older maths packages.) XeTeX support is well tested, though LuaTeX support less so.
The package can typeset using STIX fonts, the XITS development of those fonts, the Asana-Math fonts and the commercial Cambria Math fonts. There is no support yet for any extra alphabets in the Unicode ‘private use area'.
The package relies on recent versions of the fontspec package and the l3kernel and l3packages bundles.
Fontspec is a package for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. It provides an automatic and unified interface to feature-rich AAT and OpenType fonts through the NFSS in LaTeX running on XeTeX or LuaTeX engines.
The package requires the l3kernel and xparse packages from the LaTeX 3 development team.
The STIX fonts are a suite of unicode OpenType fonts containing a complete set of mathematical glyphs. The CTAN copy is a mirror of their official release, organised as specified by the TeX Directory Structure, for inclusion in standard TeX distributions.
Anyone who works with LaTeX knows how time-consuming it can be to find a symbol in symbols-a4.pdf that you just can't memorize. Detexify is an attempt to simplify this search.
Computer Modern Unicode fonts were converted from metafont sources using mftrace with autotrace backend and fontforge (former pfaedit). Their main purpose is to create free good quality fonts for use in X applications supporting many languages.
MathML has over 2000 predefined entities, many of which are associated to various symbols used in mathematics and science. Recently, assignments for these symbols were approved by the Unicode Consortium. Mozilla can display any of these symbols provided suitable Unicode fonts are installed.
Mozilla is internally Unicode-based. Furthermore, in accordance with the W3C CSS2 recommendation on fonts, authors can specify an ordered list of particular fonts which they prefer (using the font-family property of CSS), with the assurance that Mozilla's font engine will hunt for alternate fonts whenever their specified fonts are not found on a particular user' system. If no appropriate font is ultimately found for a given character, Mozilla will instead display a box containing the hexadecimal representation of the Unicode code point for the character.
It follows that, on two similar systems, while one user may see a document rendered correctly, the other user may see something completely different. To see MathML as intended, you need sufficient font support, which may mean installing some fonts. Just having a MathML-enabled browser is not necessarily enough.
The goal of the Open Font Library is to collect public domain fonts so that they may be used freely. The Open Font Library is a sister project of the Open Clip Art Library.
The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. Toward this purpose, the STIX fonts will be made available, under royalty-free license, to anyone, including publishers, software developers, scientists, students, and the general public.