Re: MathML, Mozilla, fonts and Mathematica 5.2
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg60991] Re: MathML, Mozilla, fonts and Mathematica 5.2
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 03:37:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
- References: <di2m2t$8cd$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, you must have two versions of the fonts because Mathematica uses since version 4.2 fonts with Mathematica1.*, Mathematica2.* .. and with several additional symbols compared with Math1.* ... Regards Jens "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:di2m2t$8cd$1 at smc.vnet.net... | I'm running SuSE 9.3 on a P4. IIRC, the fonts required to support MathML | with Mozilla on Linux are not the same are are distributed with the more | recent versions of Mathematica. I don't believe I needed to do this with | Mathematica 5.2, but I put the fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and ran the font | font configuration script on them. The following demonstrates that X sees | these fonts: | $ xlsfonts | grep ^\-wri\- | wc -l | 709 | | When I visit sites using MathML I get an error saying I don't have Math1, | Math2 and Math4. I believe all of these are fonts from Wolfram Research. | I really, really, really do not want to have two sets of Mathematica fonts | installed on the same system that I run Mathematica on. Is there a way to | get Mozilla to see the newer fonts? | | This is an example of a site that causes the error message to appear: | http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/ | | For some reason it did not appear when viewing the set of tests under | General->Math, but it appeared when I looked at the tests under | General->GenAttribs. | | Many MathML renderings work fine in Mozilla. The biggest problem has to do | with Matrices. The braces are rendered as normal parentheses of one row | height. | | -- | "Philosophy is written in this grand book, The Universe. ... But the book | cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language... | in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, ...; | without which wanders about in a dark labyrinth." The Lion of Gaul |