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XITS - OpenType implementation of STIX fonts with math support
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Use multiple weight XITS font in Microsoft Word #63

Closed stone-zeng closed 6 years ago

stone-zeng commented 6 years ago

When I installed the two math fonts XITSMath-Regular.otf and XITSMath-Bold.otf, only XITS Math can be found in Word's "Equation Options" (sorry for the Chinese version):

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So how can I use the bold version (without uninstall the regular one)?

Word version: Office 365 MSO (16.0.10827.20150) x64

khaledhosny commented 6 years ago

I think this a limitation of MS Word. However, most of time you don’t actually need the bold font; bold math alphanumeric are encoded as different characters in Unicode and are present in the regular XITS Math font. XITS Math Bold is for all bold equations (e.g. a math equation inside a bold title or quotation) where operators, integrals, summations etc are bold as well.

If you really want to use the bold math font in word, one solution is to change the font to make it an independent family, but this will break it for other applications so I can’t do it by default.