[Tex/LaTex] STIX fonts & TL2013 packaging

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Based on the discussion here

Is it already possible to use the STIX fonts?

it appears that the STIX project (release 1.1) supports LaTeX; I'm eager to get started with them!

TL2013 does have a current stix package, which is based on release 1.0 and does not provide LaTeX support.

Question. Is there a reason that TL hasn't upgraded to version 1.1, or is this just a matter of time (and patience)? If there is a significant obstacle, could someone explain?

(I am aware that one could–in principle–install STIX v1.1 (or, of course, 1.2) by hand, but I am not exactly sure how to do that.)

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as of now (november 2013), testing of the beta of the latex support for the stix fonts is well along. some work is needed on the fonts themselves, and i'm not sure when it will be ready for final release. however, i'm optimistic that it can happen before tex live 2014 is frozen.

the fonts and supporting package will certainly be uploaded to ctan as soon as they are ready, and the tex live crew takes in updates as they appear on ctan.

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LaTeX support for STIX fonts (Type 1 fonts, TFM files, support packages, etc) have been released few days ago (currently in beta), for people who want to use STIX but cannot/do not want to switch to a modern TeX engine.

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Instead of messing with the font installations, you may want to simply use the XeTeX engine, which is available through TexLive and is able to use the TrueType fonts installed on the system. Since I'm a Linux user myself, I'm not too sure whether it is installed by default or not. Once it is installed, you can compile your documents with e.g.

xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode myfile.tex

instead of the usual

pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode myfile.tex

You may want to configure your editor to use xelatex by default. The font declarations with xelatex are very straightforward. For Example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{TeX Gyre Pagella}
\begin{document}
Testing XeLaTeX!

\end{document}

You will need to know the names of the fonts available on your system. This list of names may help you with that.

Note that TexLive also provides the Times font, which is very similar to Times New Roman, and which you can load simply with \usepackage{mathptmx}. This works with regular pdflatex, so you don't have to install anything. Further, the Helvetica font is very similar to Arial and is available with the helvet package. The LaTeX Font Catalogue provides a good overview of fonts and font packages, many of which are available with TexLive.

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