[WikiToLearn Tech] Ubuntu fonts bug

[Gianluca Rigoletti]

2016-03-25 12:53 GMT+01:00 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org>:
> On 25 March 2016 at 12:40, Gianluca Rigoletti
> <gianluca.rigoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What are your thoughts about solving the issue?
>>> On my side I can:
>>
>> - Change the font family (but users need to be other amth fonts
>> installed, so it doesn't make sense)
>> - Write a guide on how to install the new Latin Modern font (it should
>> be writte for every kind of distro that has this problem)
>> - Force to download a font family with css (it may be slow if cache is
>> not stored).
>>
>> Sorry but I made the mistake to submit the mail before completing it :)
>
> So... it's an ubuntu bug, with a specific version of a font.
> What about disabling mathml for that specific ubuntu version? Or
> disabling MathML entirely? Would we drop support for some ancient
> browser (but is there a browser with mathml and no svg support)? What
> are the advantages of MathML compared to SVG rendering?

Yes, I forgot to mention this. I'm not really sure about the
advantages of MathML over sv, except that it has a semantic markup in
the page.

-- 
Gianluca