Some font-related questions/remarks
Frédéric Wang
As indicated in the title, I have a few questions/remarks related to fonts:
* There are two MathML bugs referring to the XFT library, but I'm
wondering if they are still relevant, because I think this library is no
longer used?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237152
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255879
* The old MathML Project Page still contains information about fonts, in
mathml/fonts/char/* and mathml/fonts/encoding/*. But I believe that most
of it is obsolete and that we can just remove all these files from
www.mozilla.org? People will still be able to find them on
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585139
(BTW, I guess the same applies to mathml/enable.html)
I also imagine that the related bug on "MathFont Encoding Tables" can
also be closed?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71408
* I've found a new free mathematical font on www.ctan.org, "Neo Euler"
which is an OpenType version of the Euler fonts.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode-math/
(but like Cambria Math, the variant and stretchy symbols are
non-Unicode glyphs).
I've just opened a bug for that:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622576
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Karl Tomlinson
> * The old MathML Project Page still contains information about
> fonts, in mathml/fonts/char/* and mathml/fonts/encoding/*. But I
> believe that most of it is obsolete and that we can just remove
> all these files from www.mozilla.org?
Yes, I think you are right.
A small part of the info on mathfontFontFamily.properties in
mathml/fonts/encoding/index.html is still relevant, but it's not
much use because it's swamped by other info that is now obsolete.
I don't know what has happened to the data in mathml/fonts/char/*
(It may have been lost somewhere between the cvs and svn
repositories.), but it doesn't look like that is worth
resurrecting given the different fonts in use now.
> (BTW, I guess the same applies to mathml/enable.html)
Yes.