[4670] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Xft-enabled Mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Jul 8 19:19:27 2004
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:19:22 -0400
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 16:37, I wrote:
> I have found that the Xft-enabled Mozilla build has issues with
> MathML; at a minimum, it looks like we will need to add a different
> set of fonts for MathML.
Here is a summary of the situation:
1) Our current set of MathML fonts do not work in the Xft-enabled
Mozilla.
2) There are TrueType fonts available which WILL work, and seem to
offer an improvement in rendering MathML, particularly on
Solaris.
3) I don't believe we can distribute the fonts freely, though
ideally we would install them locally and add their directory
to fonts.conf. (With the current fonts, we handle this by
keeping the fonts in a protected (system:authuser) directory
in infoagents, and adding the directory to the X font path
in a script invoked by the mozilla wrapper. I don't think we
want to add such a directory to fonts.conf).
4) With the new fonts configured, Mozilla still complains about
missing the Symbol font, though we have the "Standard Symbols L"
font installed. I have not been able to set up an alias which
prevents Mozilla from complaining, but we could silence it by
changing font.mathfont-family in the mathfont.properties file.
5) On Solaris, we need to apply the Xft fixes I submitted today;
otherwise, Mozilla crashes frequently on MathML pages.
If we can figure out how to deal with the packaging and distribution
issues (see (3) above), I think the Xft-enabled build would be a win
for MathML.
For more information, see:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128153#c81
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/
Bob
