Firefox: Suggested font packages for MathML

Frédéric WANG fred.wang at free.fr
Tue Jun 26 15:12:45 UTC 2012


Dear Ubuntu maintainers,

I'm one of the main developer of the Mozilla MathML Project. I've just 
looked at the suggested packages for Firefox

http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/firefox

and noticed the "latex-xft-fonts" package. This package is said to be 
"useful for Mozilla Firefox with MathML documents". This is no longer 
true. The fonts currently usable by the MathML rendering engine are:

- STIX fonts (since at least Firefox 4.0)
- Asana Math font (since Firefox 7.0)
- MathJax fonts (since Firefox 13.0)

For more details, see

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_MathML_Project/Fonts
http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic/?post/2012/04/21/Mozilla-MathML-Project%3A-about-mathematical-fonts
http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic/?post/2012/06/23/Mozilla-MathML-Project%3A-installation-of-mathematical-fonts

I would be really grateful if you could update the suggested font 
packages for MathML.

Best regards,

-- 
Frédéric Wang
maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic




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