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Folks -
Another MathML power user speaking here. If MathML is to gain any
acceptance, we must make tear down any and all barriers to using it.
[email protected] wrote on Sat, 24 May 2008 04:33:17 -0700 (PDT):
> by presenting to the users the choice of adding the fonts during the
> downloading of the browser.
This seems a very good idea to me. During the user-level firefox
installation procedure, let the user choose:
- download and install the STIX fonts locally, into the user's disk
space (no-hassle MathML support)
- not worry about the STIX fonts (proper MathML support if STIX fonts
are installed system wide, beforehand or later; crippled MathML
support if not)
> that downloading the fonts is not enough, one have to install
> them. The installation procedure differs from platform to platform
> and it is a very heavy task
[OT] Is this really still generally the case? On my Debian system, I
believe all I had to do was extract the font archive into one of the
system font directories (/usr/local/share/fonts/), and without further
ado the font was found by applications such as OOo.
That said, this is not something a user-level firefox install should
do, as it is a system-level task and requires root privileges. Of
course, distributions can make their firefox packages depend on or
recommend the STIX fonts.
Justus