[WikiToLearn Tech] Ubuntu fonts bug

[Davide Valsecchi]

I don't think it's only an ubunutu bug. We have it also in Manjaro.

I agree with Christian that it's better a temporary workaround than a drop.

Bye
Davide

2016-03-25 13:54 GMT+01:00 Cristian Baldi <bld.cris.96 at gmail.com>:

> I don't think it is a good idea to drop MathML support.
>
> It is a new HTML5 standard and has very interesting features in the
> "accessibility" and "usability" aspect of the browser.
>
> In the future MathML should be the standard for the math in the browser
> and SVG just a fallback.
>
> We have to find a temporary workaround for this (the CSS font thing
> suggested by Gianluca maybe, how big is the font file?) and at the same
> time ask upstream (Ubuntu? Firefox?) to fix the problem.
>
> Cristian
>
> 2016-03-25 13:31 GMT+01:00 Dario Mapelli <mapelli.dario at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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