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poetofnumbers

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From: Kansas, United States

Registered: 2004-10-30

Posts: 106

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MathML on Firefox

Has anyone gotten MathML to render on Firefox?  You can test if you can get Firefox to render MathML.  I realize that MathML is enabled by default in Firefox 1.5, but I cannot get the fonts configured correctly.  I've followed the font configuration instructions on the Firefox MathML page.  If you have gotten MathML to render on Firefox, please post the instructions that you followed.

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Sweet, now I can play with myself.

sh__

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Registered: 2005-07-19

Posts: 272

Re: MathML on Firefox

Aye, I got it working. The main problem was that firefox from [current] uses pango to render the fonts. Pango (at least the current version) does not handle MathML so well. I had to stop firefox from using pango:

export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

Also, there's some fuzz with the fonts. You probably have installed the Computer Modern and Mathematica fonts. The symbol font defaults to a bitmap font that does not scale nicely. I changed that by editing the about:config entry font.mathfont-family:

cmsy10, cmex10, Math1, Math2, Math4, Standard Symbols L

So I replaced 'symbol' with 'Standard Symbols L'. I guess that belongs to the gsfonts package.

shifteight

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Registered: 2005-06-25

Posts: 8

Re: MathML on Firefox

Aye, I got it working. The main problem was that firefox from [current] uses pango to render the fonts. Pango (at least the current version) does not handle MathML so well. I had to stop firefox from using pango:

export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

Also, there's some fuzz with the fonts. You probably have installed the Computer Modern and Mathematica fonts. The symbol font defaults to a bitmap font that does not scale nicely. I changed that by editing the about:config entry font.mathfont-family:

cmsy10, cmex10, Math1, Math2, Math4, Standard Symbols L

So I replaced 'symbol' with 'Standard Symbols L'. I guess that belongs to the gsfonts package.

I did like that, and I tested the page http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/ … smml.xhtml . Most symbols are showed correctly. But the symbols such as "equal or less than" can not be showed correctly. Would you like to test it again?

sh__

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Registered: 2005-07-19

Posts: 272

Re: MathML on Firefox

I did like that, and I tested the page http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/ … smml.xhtml . Most symbols are showed correctly. But the symbols such as "equal or less than" can not be showed correctly. Would you like to test it again?

Sure. All symbols seem to render quite ok (expect overbraces and underbraces don't have the right width).

One thing to note is that the MathML page recommends version 4.1 of Mathematica fonts (version in AUR is 5.2).