RE: STIX fonts for clients

We have no clout with Microsoft at all. Typically, they are deaf to
demands from other s/w companies which, if you think about it, makes
sense. It is customers they listen to, if anybody.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William F Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:13 AM
> To: Paul Topping
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: 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
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