Re: STIXfonts & Mozilla MathML?

On 07.12.2007 20:57, Ray Kiddy wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, I'm not sure that it would be useful to ship fonts with Firefox. The
fonts have to be installed into the system to be visible to the browser,
right? The details of font installations are so different between the
platforms that I think it would be really difficult to do that. Or do we
have functions in Gecko that would allow system font installs?

   Peter.