Re: cannot get mathml fonts to work in Iceape or Iceweasel

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

H.S. wrote:

> I think I have succeeded in installing the fonts (see the
> output of some commands below). But I am not able to get proper
> rendering on this page: 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml


MATHML in Mozilla products is still buggy in Debian (old bug, see
#401533 and others).

To get correct MATHML display, you can edit /etc/iceape/iceaperc,
changing MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 to MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1. However, this
only cures the *display* of MATHML. *Printing* MATHML still does
not work correctly. Also, disabling Pango has side-effects. Some
non-Latin scrips (like Devanagari) are not displayed (or printed)
correctly when Pango is off.

If printing MATHML is important for you, you can try to install
the Fedora Core version. FC cured the bug in December last year.

Regards, Jan