On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:13:28PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | The attached patch extends yesterday's by some kind of "graceful failing"
> | in case of missing symbol fonts. Math symbols for which we can't find a
> | font simply get displayed as their LaTeX name in red (a.k.a. "The way it
> | used to be").
> |
> | Lars: It would be nice to have your decision whether something like this
> | can go in during "feature freeze". It is certainly "something new". I could
> | revert my own stuff to CVS head easily and keep this patch around for
> | application in the next devel series. On the other hand, several dozen
> | new supported symbols would make a nice item on the "What's new in 1.2.0"
> | list.
>
> what I like to know is what requirements this put on the user.
People with teTeX installed (a large proportion of your users, I'd
imagine) have the necessary fonts. They don't necessarily have them
where the X server can see them, though.
Jules
(Lars: your name looks funny in my email now, although it used to work
fine. The character between the 'Bj' and the 'nnes' is a top-right
corner, i.e.
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|
Something is broken in my email program or yours...)
