On 19 Apr 2009, at 06:54, dpvc wrote:
> I do not think it is a jsMath bug. If I understand you, by "works > correctly" you mean that Firefox doesn't show the font warning message > (while IE7 does, which you consider not working correctly). You have > tried several means of installing the jsMath image fonts as a solution > to this problem. By works correctly, I mean that Firefox displays the nicely rendered equations, while IE only displays raw latex code. > The jsMath font warning message actually has nothing to do with > whether the image fonts are installed or not. It has to do with > whether the user who is reading your page has the jsMath TTF fonts > installed on their computer or not. If they don't, the message will > appear and jsMath will fall back on the image fonts. (If you don't > have the image fonts installed, then jsMath would report the infamous > -7 error during startup). For some reason, the fall back to image fonts is not working for me, using my sage server on OS X, and viewing the worksheet on a PC running IE7. I don't know if there is a problem with the image font installation in sage, a jsMath problem, or an IE problem. But, as long as Firefox will work, I am happy, and feel no need to spend more time on this issue. But, if you think there could be a jsMath bug that you want to investigate, I would be happy to help out. > It turns out that jsMath used to use a different set of TTF fonts that > where created by BaKoMa for use with TeX installations, but they ended > up being problematic, so I made jsMath-specific TTF fonts to get > around those problems. Under some circumstances, however, jsMath can > still make use of the older BaKoMa fonts, and so if these are > available, it will use them rather than the image fonts. That is > probably what is happening for your Firefox, as the BaKoMa fonts are > used by Firefox as part of its MathML implementation, so you probably > have them for that, whereas your IE7 users don't have them installed. > (I'm not sure what fonts the MathPlayer plugin for MathML in IE > requires.) Thanks for the explanation. Kevin > > > On Apr 18, 7:48 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> Kevin Horton wrote: >> >>> I have made some progress in that I discovered that Firefox 3 works >>> correctly on my work PC. It is only IE 7 that has the problems. I >>> can live with this, so I will not invest any more time on this >>> issue, >>> unless someone wants my assistance to try to beat this bug to death. >> >> This sounds like it might be a jsmath bug. Davide (the author) at >> least >> occasionally reads this list. He might ask for more details, or he >> might already know what is going on. >> >> I am curious, though: when you click on the jsmath icon in the lower >> right, a panel pops up and says what types of fonts jsmath is >> using. Is >> it using the image fonts? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> Jason > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
