Re: MathML Core Meeting on Monday April 24, 2023

It looks like our stack exchange postings overlapped (I guess there is now
reinforcement of the "solution").

I'm glad that this was the solution to your problem. Hopefully in a few
years, all platforms ship with a math font.

     Neil


On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 2:42 PM Dave Barton <dbarton@mathscribe.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>