MathML in Firefox

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, George N. White III wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> Anybody have success with MathML in Firefox?  I installed mathml-fonts from 
>> Extras and the Mathematica and MathType TrueType fonts in subdirectories of 
>> /usr/share/fonts.  Reloaded xfs, restarted Firefox. Went to the test pages 
>> listed at www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/ and they all look hideous. 
>> Spacing and sizes are all wrong, brackets all look like little ladders, 
>> lots of other ugliness.
>> 
>> Using FC4, firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4, mathml-fonts-1.0-18.fc4.
>> 
>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks.
>
> Others have mentioned bug 150393 and the workaround, but it is worth noting 
> that the generic Firefox beta 1 from mozilla.org does a good job with 
> <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml>.
> There are some font problems with other mathml sites.

The page looks fine in firefox-1.0.6-1.2.fc4 with the workaround.  I 
suspect that the generic Fx releases have Pango turned off.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs