Re: STIX fonts for clients

Hi Paul,

You write in [email protected]:

> Yes, I understand what you propose. However, this may create yet
> another font mess. It has long (~10 years) that the STIX fonts will
> become the math fonts that all will use. I think it would be far
> better for the FF/Mozilla community to write a proper font installer
> (it can't be that hard, we did it) and place pressure on the OS makers
> to clean house with respect to the difficulty of doing so. Perhaps
> they can even help with the project.

However it is done, it is important for everybody here that mathml
handling be available everywhere, i.e., on all browsers and on all
platforms.

Part of the problem is that there are those who don't yet understand
that they will benefit from having this capability.  There are even
math professors who have yet to see a web page with MathML.

Another aspect of this, generally new compared with 1998, is that
there are users who want the capability but do not have system-level
installation permissions to bring it about without involving a system
manager.

For this reason it is important that browsers work properly with
mathml out-of-the-box.

In particular, it would be enormously helpful if mathplayer was
bundled by MS with IE.  Anything you can do to push that would help.
Also those of us who know folk at MS could write to them.

                                    -- Bill