[Paraview-developers] RE: Mathematical symbols in ParaView annotations

[Rogers, David H]

All -
 
This is an important issue for Prism.  Please let me know if there's any
grunt work to be done for this, and I'll gladly help.

	-----Original Message-----
	From: owner-visrd at sandia.gov [mailto:owner-visrd at sandia.gov] On
Behalf Of Thompson, David C
	Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 1:37 AM
	To: paraview-developers at paraview.org
	Subject: Mathematical symbols in ParaView annotations
	
	

	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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