[WikiToLearn Tech] Ubuntu fonts bug

[Dario Mapelli]

MathML looks very nice!
I think that an Ubuntu bug, that we all hope will be solved in the next LTS
should not
force us to drop MathML support..

2016-03-25 13:05 GMT+01:00 Gianluca Rigoletti <gianluca.rigoletti at gmail.com>
:

> 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
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