Re: mathvariant vs. plane 1

At the moment, it requires extra fonts but we do hope to support and ship
with the stix fonts at some point in time.

    Neil

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov> wrote:

> Neil Soiffer wrote:
>
>>
>>    Or are there any pending developments that
>>    would improve the situation in some of the
>>    browsers?
>>
>> I added the other plane one alphabetics to MathPlayer's development
>> version a month ago or so... or at least I think I did.  Three weeks of
>> vacation washed a lot of details from my mind.  I have no estimate as to
>> when that version will be released.
>>
>
> Ah, now that is interesting news! Thanks!
> Would that be support out-of-the-box
> (ie with whatever fonts MathPlayer includes),
> or would it require extra fonts to be present?
>
> This would suggest that within the near future
> delivering plane-1 codepoints is likely to be
> more useful for the web than mathvariant.
> [It would seem to be more straightforward
> for Opera's CSS engine, although it doesn't yet
> completely support plane-1]
>
> A downside of plane-1 is that when it doesn't work
> you get red "?" or boxes, rather than a potentially
> misleading wrong letter --- so maybe it's an upside,
> after all?
>
> I wonder how readers will react...
>
>
>
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