Italic p serif

[xsrvmy]

I have noticed that half of the serif on the tails of p and q have been removed compared to the old version of stix (and thus times). I assume this is a deliberate decision given that Cambria also does this. However it actually looked really odd when I used it in math (may the serif is too long?)

Anyways, are there plans to add a cv that would use times-style serifs on p and q?

[tiroj]

Yes, that was a deliberate decision. I prefer single serifs—or no serifs—on descenders in italics, as it conforms better with cursive styling. If people don’t like this, I can restore the left serifs, or provide variants.

[xsrvmy]

In order: DejaVu, Liberation, Caladea (Google's Cambria), STIX

I guess people who use Word are more used to the current style, but the serif on p should probably be shorter to match the one on q, and people who use LaTeX are more used to having both serifs (CM, times, etc) or no serifs (Palatino, etc) on p and q.

BTW talking about character variants, isn't there an issue with variants not working in subscripts?

[tiroj]

BTW talking about character variants, isn't there an issue with variants not working in subscripts?

I reordered some of the variant lookups for v2.12, so that they are processed before the ssty substitutions. Will require testing.