MathML in Firefox
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sun Sep 18 14:58:26 UTC 2005
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, George N. White III wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> Anybody have success with MathML in Firefox? I installed mathml-fonts from
>> Extras and the Mathematica and MathType TrueType fonts in subdirectories of
>> /usr/share/fonts. Reloaded xfs, restarted Firefox. Went to the test pages
>> listed at www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/ and they all look hideous.
>> Spacing and sizes are all wrong, brackets all look like little ladders,
>> lots of other ugliness.
>>
>> Using FC4, firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4, mathml-fonts-1.0-18.fc4.
>>
>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
>
> Others have mentioned bug 150393 and the workaround, but it is worth noting
> that the generic Firefox beta 1 from mozilla.org does a good job with
> <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml>.
> There are some font problems with other mathml sites.
The page looks fine in firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4 with the workaround. I
suspect that the generic Fx releases have Pango turned off.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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