- From: Dave Barton <dbarton@mathscribe.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:42:44 -0700
- To: Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
On 4/24/23 10:31 AM, Dave Barton wrote: > 3. Is it MathML Core policy that any web pages using it should > download a math web font? Or is this a temporary problem? Is there a > good web page explaining this (and recommending a solution) that I > (jqMath) can link to? I suppose I could change jqMath to automatically > download a math web font, but authors should be able to override the > choice, and need to understand this issue, I think. My confusion, and > the stack overflow issue and chromium bug report(!) which preceded it > show that the web font requirement is a surprise, even to those of us > that should know better. > > Many thanks for your explanation. I do think this needs clarification > to us unwashed masses, though. > All right, I found https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Authoring#mathematical_fonts and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Fonts. Also the chromium bug has been clarified to be a related special case. So I'm now back on the MathML bandwagon. :) Sorry to spam the list. - Dave B. P.S. Thanks for all your efforts, especially Fred, David Carlisle, and Neil. MathML definitely looks to be much better now than ever before.
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