Re: STIX fonts for clients

On May 27, 8:12 pm, William F Hammond <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

Hi Bill,

We are on the same side in this debate. I am trying to convey to the
Firefox team a simple solution for providing the clients with the STIX
fonts. Unfortunately nobody there made a remark. Let's hope, Samy