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Subject: Re: (math related) fonts in www/firefox-2.0.0.14_1,1
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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.
>

The x11-fonts/webfonts did the trick.  Thanks Chad.

Joey