On Saturday 26 January 2008, dpvc wrote: > > I find the warning messages that appear at the top of the notebook saying > > that JsMath isn't available annoying. > > If you look carefully, it says the jsMath TeX fonts aren't found, not > that jsMath isn't found (in fact, it is jsMath that issuing the > message, so clearly that was found). > > > I find it especially annoying when I try to print something - I get a big > > red box at the top of my output saying: > > > > To print higher resolution math symbols, click the > > Hi_Res Fonts for Printing button on thejsMathcontrol panel. > > If you would install the jsMath TeX fonts, that would go away. > > > What control panel? > > The small jsMath button at the bottom right of the screen links to the > control panel. Also, the initial jsMath font warning page that you > get when you first view the notebook has two buttons on it: one to > hide the message and one to open the jsMath control panel. If you > don't like to see the message, you can push the hide button and it > will go away (no more work than if you were receive an alert > message). If you don't know how to get the jsMath control panel, you > can get it from that message. You can also get it by ALT-clicking on > any typeset mathematics. > > > If you have to issue a warning, it should be on the 'print' window, > > before you commit to paper. Having seen the message, if you go ahead, it > > should not appear on the paper! > > If sage constructs a special version of the page for printing purposes > (I don't use sage myself, so I'm unfamiliar with its workings), then > it would be possible for that page to load the higher-resolution fonts > automatically (via the insertion of a line similar to the one William > listed for turning off the main font warning). Otherwise, if you are > just printing the page out of the browser, there is no way to jsMath > to know if you are planning to print such a page, and so it puts it > in the only place that makes sense, the printed version, which will be > showing the poor quality output and where it is likely to do you some > good. Putting it on every page you view would be considered by some > users as "annoying". > > The jsMath panel allows you to control the printing of these messages, > so the user has the option of turning them off himself. You can also > configure jsMath not to display the print warnings in a similar > fashion to William's message about the main font warnings. You can > also change the CSS styles for the message to make them less > obtrusive, or replace the content of the message by your own wording. > Finally, you can override jsMath's function for issuing the message > and so make it appear anywhere or in any form you want. These > possibilities are documented at > > http://www.math.union.edu/locate/jsMath/authors/warnings.html > > so the sage project could set up the messages in a different way if it > wants to. > > Davide Davide, see my earlier message to William. Apologies for my confusion. There's a lot of stuff for my poor aged brain to absorb and I hadn't read your web pages properly... :-)
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