(math related) fonts in www/firefox-2.0.0.14_1,1

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Thu Jul 31 18:19:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:42:39AM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some trouble getting firefox to display certain (math
> related) fonts.
> 
> For example, the page for the Poisson distribution at Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution) uses, what I
> believe is, a lambba character (sentence with the pmf), but it shows
> up like this for me: http://jrm.ath.cx/misc/firefox_math_fonts.png.
> I've installed x11-fonts/mathfonts-4.1_5 and it seems to be working
> well based on my results at http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/.  Is
> there anything else I'm missing?

Do you have the x11-fonts/webfonts port installed?  That would be my
first guess.  A second might be x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Mediocrity corrupts.  Bureaucracy corrupts absolutely.
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