Re: STIXfonts & Mozilla MathML?

[email protected] writes:

> It seems to me that the right way to do this on a per-user basis is to
> create/edit the file
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/chrome/userContent.css and add something
> like the following to it:
>
> math {
>   font-family: STIXGeneral, STIXVariants, STIXIntegralsSmall, STIXIntegralsDisplay, STIXIntegralsUp, STIXIntegralsUpSmall, STIXIntegralsUpDisplay, STIXSize1Symbols, STIXSize2Symbols, STIXSize3Symbols, STIXSize4Symbols, STIXSize5Symbols;
> }
>
> This overrides the corresponding MathML font selection in the
> stylesheet Urs referred to, and displays variables in math italic and
> not text italic (and not text italic as with Urs' method).

(I haven't tried this, but it sounds like a good way.)

>
> This does not list all available fonts, and I'm not sure which of
> these are actually needed (probably all available in general), but it
> seems to render my math correctly, including math bold italic...

I suspect STIXGeneral is providing all the non-stretchy chars, so
the other families won't be used.

Putting your favourite STIXIntegrals* family before STIXGeneral
should use that for the integrals but all those integral fonts
report family as "STIXIntegrals" (on Linux at least), so it's
difficult to be specific.

> ... and stretchy characters.

To use STIX fonts for the stretchy chars, you really need to
provide appropriate mathfont*.properties files, and set the
font.mathfont-family preference.

I don't know of a way to provide the properties files on a per
user basis, as I think they need to be in the res/fonts directory.
(They are loaded from resource://gre/res/fonts/.)

The mathfontSTIXNonUnicode.properties file at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400938#c6
should be suitable.

And the mathfontSTIXSize1.properties file at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400938#c7
will provide a start.

But for complete support in Gecko 1.8, the appropriate subset of
lines should be taken from the file at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400938#c10
and the remainder placed in a file named
"mathfontSTIXGeneral.properties".

A suitable value for font.mathfont-family would be
"STIXNonUnicode, STIXSize1, STIXGeneral".