Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

[Frédéric WANG <fred.wang@free.fr>]

Dear Debian maintainers,

I raised this issue about math font dependency in Iceweasel a couple of 
time ago but I still don't see any changes at 
http://packages.debian.org/sid/iceweasel... The issue was discussed 
again on the LaTeXML mailing list, so I'm going to report it again.

Basically, Iceweasel must not depend on ttf-lyx, ttf-mathematica4.1, 
xfonts-mathml or any other font packages that would lead to the 
installation of Computer Modern fonts or Mathematica fonts. These old 
fonts were used a long time ago in Gecko's MathML engine but now they 
may give weird rendering bugs if they are still installed. However, the 
dependency on otf-stix should be preserved and possibly a dependency on 
fonts-oflb-asana-math should be added: 
http://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-oflb-asana-math

It would also be great to make Iceweasel depend on the MathJax fonts as 
they look more like the old Computer Modern fonts. There is one debian 
package for MathJax here: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/mathjax 
but the MathJax fonts should probably be distributed in a separate 
mathjax-fonts package and the Iceweasel and Mathjax package should 
depend on that new package mathjax-fonts.

The fonts for Iceweasel can be tested in the MathML torture test:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla_MathML_Project/MathML_Torture_Test

Can the maintainer of the Iceweasel and MathJax package please do 
something to address this issue?

Thank you,

--
Frédéric Wang
maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic