294224 - Support Mathematica 4.2 fonts

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: MathML, defect)

Description

[Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050420 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050420 Firefox/1.0.3

At least under Linux, I'm told that I need to install "Math1, Math2, Math4" when
I have the Mathematica 4.2 fonts package installed. The simple workaround is to
change font.mathfont-family to use Mathematica1, Mathematica2, Mathematica4 in
place of those three. The page linked to [1] by the MathML page [2] lists the
4.2 fonts first and, as far as I can tell, there's no reason not to use them.

[1] http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/windows/general/latestfonts.html
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma]

It seems that the simple solutions are:
1) replace the 4.1 names with the 4.2
2) include both and don't warn the user about the missing families

The more complicated and better solution seems to be loading the families listed
and then checking to see if all needed glyphs are present. If not, warn the user
that they're missing fonts.

Perhaps this should be delayed until after the page is rendered. That makes
things simpler since you can just set a flag before rendering and then check it
afterwards. It would also warn the user once per page and only when actually
needed (currently it's once an instance and always).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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