Re: Important information about the MathML fonts in Gecko 41

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Thank you for the suggestion and reference Murray.

Actually, the "check whether there is a MATH table" workaround has
already been used since Gecko 31, because many OpenType fonts with a
MATH table didn't set the OS/2 USE_TYPO_METRICS flag properly. However,
it's not really good to keep such "hacks" so this will be removed
starting with Gecko 43 (to be released at the end of the year):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1170782

=46rom my testing of free math fonts and from what I heard (for non-free
math fonts), all the fonts with a MATH table but STIX sets the OS/2
USE_TYPO_METRICS flag. That's not much a problem for STIX since the
current release has bugs that prevent it to be usable for math layout
anyway and it's best to use the XITS fork. The STI Pub is aware of the
bugs and I'm confident that at least the  OS/2 USE_TYPO_METRICS bug will
be fixed in version 2.

On 09/23/2015 10:58 PM, Murray Sargent wrote:
> Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric noted that the STIX font doesn't support the OS/2 US=
E_TYPO_METRICS flag.=20
>
> For math fonts, a workaround is to check if there's a MATH table and us=
e the typo metrics if so. Another work around is to compare the type asce=
nt/descent to the TEXTMETRIC ascent/descent and assume a high font is inv=
olved if the latter is significantly bigger (1.5 =C3=97 or more). Here's =
a post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/archive/2009/12/01/high-fonts-and=
-math-fonts.aspx#10023606) on high fonts which explains a little more.
>
> Murray


--=20
Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Wang
maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic



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