Re: MathML in Firefox 3 beta 5 (Mozilla 1.9)

Karl Tomlinson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.mathml
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:44:03 +0200, Alvaro wrote:

> And parenthesis and braces are usually too small: these should
> stretch to their content. Even with stretchy="true" they don't.

Sounds like you may be using Windows XP without fonts for Unicode
math support.

Nightly builds now handled many of these situations specially
using SymbolMT.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425367

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:52:55 +0200, Alvaro wrote:

> ... the other annoying problem are *root symbols*:

> They don't scale vertically to enclose their operand.

Currently you need STIX fonts to get stretchy radicals

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/stix/beta-license.txt
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/stix/STIXBeta.zip

It would be possible to do something with Cambria Math and
OpenSymbol (from OpenOffice) as described here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372351#c6

> BTW, integrals are OK. They look small with stretchy="false"
> (well, maybe too small).

They should be larger.  That could be easily corrected when STIX
give their various integral fonts unique family names as indicated
here:

http://www.stixfonts.org/STIXfaq.html
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