MathML in Firefox

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sun Sep 18 14:15:10 UTC 2005


On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Eric Tanguy wrote:
>
>> Le samedi 17 septembre 2005 à 17:07 -0400, Matthew Saltzman a écrit :
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Edit /usr/bin/firefox and uncomment these 2 lines :
>> MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
>> export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO
>
> That's it, thanks!
>
> Now that I see it's Pango-related, I found gtkmathview in Rawhide.  Not sure
                                                             ^^^^^^^
                                                             Extras devel
> yet if it builds for FC4.

It does build and install, but has no effect on Fx rendering.  I guess Fx 
has to be updated to take advantge.  Maybe by FC5...


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 		Matthew Saltzman

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