Re: STIXfonts & Mozilla MathML?

Yes I agree. From the end user perspective it would be nice not to  
have to install anything or at a minimum a level of complexity not  
beyond say installing something like the Flash player.

Thanks,

Daniel

On Dec 7, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:

> Karl Tomlinson wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:46:23 -0800, Norbert Nemec wrote:
>>
>>> now that the first beta of STIXfonts is out (www.stixfonts.org) has
>>> anybody tried using them with MathML in Mozilla? I would just  
>>> love to
>>> see what that looks like, but I don't even know what I would need to
>>> do to access them.
>>
>> The latest firefox (minefield) nightlies, since 2007-12-05, now
>> prefer STIX fonts by default when they are installed.
>>
>> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
>>
>> There are still some rendering issues and occasional glyph
>> selection issues.  Most notably mtable doesn't display, entities
>> corresponding to characters outside the Unicode BMP are not
>> correct yet, and especially on Windows, you may need to scroll or
>> cover enough of the Mozilla window with another window to get the
>> maths to paint.  These issues are tracked here:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi? 
>> id=324857&hide_resolved=1
>>
>> But you should be able to see what MathML looks like with STIX
>> fonts.
>
> I am hoping that, someday, I can use MathML on a clean Firefox without
> having to go install extra fonts. Is anyone on the lookout for a  
> set of
> fonts with a Moz-compatible license so that either the fonts can be
> included in FF, distributed automatically with FF, or the use of them
> can be made automatic somehow? (I know ways this can be done, but the
> specifics are not the question here.)
>
> I had to hunt a bit, but I found this license on the web site.
>
> http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html
>
> (The URL is simpler to type in than to navigate to....)
>
> Is this license Moz-compatible? Do others want to see the MathML
> included in more intuitive way?
>
> FYI, I am coming at this as a Mac user. Forgive me if I am not  
> aware of
> progress or issues on other platforms.
>
> thanx - ray
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