Re: [Freefont-bugs] Next release of GNU Free Fonts with Open Type MATH support?

[Frédéric WANG]

Hi Steve,

Yes "in coming months" sounds good, that will let time to do more
experiments with the MATH table and help fixing potential issues. For
the over-hat and over-tilde, they seem to display correctly in FontForge
so my guess would be that you added variants/constructions for some
specific code points but your test document uses other code points
(there are several code points for "hat" and "tilde"...). I'm cc'ing
Khaled Hosny, who might help to test the font as well.

Le 07/04/2015 21:16, Steve White a écrit :
> Hi, Frédéric,
>
> Yes, I did experiment with the MATH table around that time.  I'm
> afraid I didn't really know what I was doing, and I haven't looked at
> it until just yesterday (when somebody mentioned it to me.)
>
> I would be glad to see a good test of math rendering capabilites.
> Particularly, table entries that I thought should produce extensible
> over-hat and over-tilde are apparently not being applied--and I've
> tried it many different ways.  Can you tell what's wrong?
>
> The plan is to release FreeFont when all known problems are resolved,
> and releasing it doesn't break any existing applications that are
> working right (to the best of our knowledge).  It is now in no such
> state.
>
> The biggest, global problem was that FreeFont supports several Indic
> scripts.  Most of these were working (to the best of our testing
> abilities) at the time of the 2012 release, but the shift to the
> Harfbuzz renderer just months after took us by surprise.  It's a big
> improvement, but it broke everything.  We've put a great deal of work
> into bringing it up to date.  One of these scripts is still badly
> broken, and one remains to be tested by a native speaker.
>
> But this is only one class of problems.  There are others.
>
> I hope you can be satisfied with "in coming months".
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Frédéric Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Someone recently asked me to add GNU FreeSerif to the list of default
>> fonts for my MathML font settings addon [1]. It turns out that,
>> according to the changelog, a MATH table was added in November 2013 ;
>> which means that it can be used for the MathML rendering in Gecko >= 31
>> [2]. This is great news since GNU FreeSerif seems to be
>> available/preinstalled in most Linux distributions and so that would
>> avoid the need for users to manually install math font [3]. However, the
>> latest release of GNU FreeSerif was in 2012, which leads to the
>> following question: when will the next version of GNU FreeSerif be released?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mathml-font-settings/
>> [2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/31.0/releasenotes/
>> [3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts
>>
>>
>> --
>> Frédéric Wang
>> maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic
>>
>>


-- 
Frédéric Wang
maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic

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