[Paraview-developers] Mathematical symbols in ParaView annotations

[Thompson, David C]

Hey everybody,

A while back, there was some discussion of how to
include greek symbols, math symbols, etc. in ParaView's
annotations. At that point, there seemed to be two
problems:
1. Most "Symbol" fonts didn't contain the traditional
   Latin-1 glyphs (for the alphabet, etc) and most
   others didn't contain the math symbols. Thus using
   both types of glyphs in the same piece of text
   would require a lot of code to find the right font
   for the job, especially given the numerous encoding
   hacks that many "Symbol" fonts use.
2. None of the "Symbol" fonts had a license compatible
   with Kitware's.
It looks like both of those may be changing before the
year is out; the STIX font project (http://www.stixfonts.org/)
is developing a family of fonts for scientific publishing.
They've just released their draft user/developer license and
plan to have a "beta" release next month.

They are still accepting comments on the license at this point,
so I would like to know if there are any barriers to include
the fonts with VTK/ParaView. If so, perhaps the license could
be adjusted before it becomes permanent. So... any comments
from Kitware?

    Thanks,
    David
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