Iceweasel: suggested font packages for MathML
Frédéric WANG
fred.wang at free.fr
Mon Dec 12 22:23:14 UTC 2011
Dear Debian Mozilla team,
I've just had a look to the dependencies for Iceweasel 8 and I've seen
the following packages:
* xfonts-mathml: installs "Type1 Symbol", suggests otf-stix and
recommends ttf-lyx.
* ttf-lyx | latex-xft-fonts: installs TeX's Computer Modern fonts
* ttf-mathematica4.1: installs mathematica fonts
Mathematical fonts are used in Mozilla's MathML implementation to
display stretchy/large operators correctly. Also, they are useful to
render various mathematical symbols.
Since at least Gecko 2, TeX and Mathematica fonts are no longer used for
stretchy/large operators. Instead, we rely on STIX fonts 1.0. These
fonts should also cover most of the unicode characters needed for
mathematics. So I think among the dependencies listed above, only
otf-stix is really useful (Karl Tomlinson may know it better).
Among other free fonts currently suggested:
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_MathML_Project/Fonts)
- Asana Math (support for stretchy/large operators since Gecko 7, good
support for mathematical symbols)
- DejaVu Serif and DejaVu Sans
You may also be interested in following these entries in Bugzilla:
* MathJax: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701758
* Neo Euler: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622576
* STIX 1.1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693968
regards,
--
Frédéric Wang.
Website <http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/> - Weblog
<http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic/>
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