Mathematica support for non-Wolfram math fonts

Does Mathematica support the installation of non-Wolfram fonts for math symbols?

Examples of other math symbol fonts include the recently released STIX fonts, Microsoft's Cambria font, the Math Times font used under Latex, etc.

Solution

I have not been able to find a way to substitute math-specific characters like Greek letters, integration operators, etc. It is, however, possible to substitute letters from normal text fonts by selecting the relevant bit of of the notebook (including 2D typesetting in text cells separately, it seems), and setting the desired font in the Option Inspector.

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This shows how the difference between a typeset expression in Adobe Caslon Pro and the default in Times. The x is clearly different in the two fonts.

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If you set the OperatorSubstitution option in the inspector to False, you will also get characters such as +,- etc in the text font rather than Mathematica's custom fonts.

The question is whether it would make sense to use other math fonts for what remains. Obviously it would be nice to use matching Greek letters if they were available. But given that it cannot be guaranteed that even an extensive math font like STIX has all the characters available in Mathematica (think esc-wolf-esc), I can understand why this might not be customisable. In addition, I doubt if most people could tell the difference between the Mathematica Times-based fonts, the LaTeX Times fonts and the STIX fonts, which are also pretty much like Times. The Microsoft Cambria fonts do look different, but aren't yet widely used in technical publishing.