Bug#401533: MATHML and Indic scripts

Jan Willem Stumpel jstumpel at planet.nl
Tue Sep 4 15:18:27 UTC 2007


Alexander Sack wrote:

> I didn't look into the bug, but my guess would be that nobody
> really investigated how FC6 does resolve this issue and how to
> adapt that solution to debian.
> 
> If this is all already in the bug, then I don't know ...
> otherwise please provide the needed info and I am sure that it
> will get fixed for iceweasel et al as well.

I used to be sure about this too.. but the solution has been in
the bug reports for a long time, and nothing happened. Behdad
Esfahbod made a patch. It is not possible (for me) to apply this
patch to the Debian sources because I lack the skills for this,
but any maintainer worth his salt could probably do so; in case of
difficulty, an e-mail to Esfahbod (behdad at cs.toronto.edu) would
probably clear up things pretty quickly.

In the meantime, whenever I want to use MATHML, I have to use the
FC6 version of Firefox, converted to Debian by means of "alien".

I'd love to have the same capabilities with Debian packages, e.g.
seamonkey (a.k.a. iceape) as well. I just hope that Debian's fork
of mozilla is not the reason this does not happen.

See also

http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T9.3
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/bounce.html (the introduction about MATHML).

Regards, Jan






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