Dear Debian maintainers,
I raised this issue about math font dependency in Iceweasel a couple of
time ago but I still don't see any changes at
http://packages.debian.org/sid/iceweasel... The issue was discussed
again on the LaTeXML mailing list, so I'm going to report it again.
Basically, Iceweasel must not depend on ttf-lyx, ttf-mathematica4.1,
xfonts-mathml or any other font packages that would lead to the
installation of Computer Modern fonts or Mathematica fonts. These old
fonts were used a long time ago in Gecko's MathML engine but now they
may give weird rendering bugs if they are still installed. However, the
dependency on otf-stix should be preserved and possibly a dependency on
fonts-oflb-asana-math should be added:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-oflb-asana-math
It would also be great to make Iceweasel depend on the MathJax fonts as
they look more like the old Computer Modern fonts. There is one debian
package for MathJax here: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/mathjax
but the MathJax fonts should probably be distributed in a separate
mathjax-fonts package and the Iceweasel and Mathjax package should
depend on that new package mathjax-fonts.
The fonts for Iceweasel can be tested in the MathML torture test:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla_MathML_Project/MathML_Torture_Test
Can the maintainer of the Iceweasel and MathJax package please do
something to address this issue?
Thank you,
--
Frédéric Wang
maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic
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