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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:51:01 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (math related) fonts in www/firefox-2.0.0.14_1,1
Message-ID:  <20080731215101.GB7256@kokopelli.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <f5b896260807311138h1ffaa920r19fde15609b6aedd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:38:11PM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>=20
> The x11-fonts/webfonts did the trick.  Thanks Chad.

Glad to be of help.

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Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Peter Norvig: "Use the most natural notation available to solve the
problem, and then worry about writing an interpreter for that notation."

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