mathvariant="script" not honored by firefox about latexml HOT 6 CLOSED

sorry, wrong entity there - that would be for \mathrsfs, not \cal

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Actually both \mathcal & \mathscr map to mathvariant="script",
unfortunately. (RSFS is sorta halfway between script & fraktur,
but MathML doesn't give an intermediate)

At any rate, this one has been bugging me. I was surprised
that FF supports plane 1 now; Does MathPlayer? Is this safe
for other things, like Opera?

Doing the mapping would be annoying, but if it works and
is safe to use now, maybe that's a good thing.
Other tools like MathML indexers will have to be updated
(but will be eventually, anyway).

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Replying to comment 2 @brucemiller:

Actually both \mathcal & \mathscr map to mathvariant="script",
unfortunately. (RSFS is sorta halfway between script & fraktur,
but MathML doesn't give an intermediate)

Yep, unfortunate.

At any rate, this one has been bugging me. I was surprised
that FF supports plane 1 now; Does MathPlayer? Is this safe
for other things, like Opera?

I'm afraid I don't know...

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I just checked in a patch to the MathML generation, and a new
option to latexmlpost.

If you use the option --plane1 it will convert all the convertible
pairs of tokens & mathvariant to plane1, w/o the mathvariant.

It's all a bit of a mixed bag, as not all combinations that you
would expect are there, but between the two of them it seems to
work on Firefox. Apparently, some future release of MathPlayer
will support plane1, but no idea about when. I would think Opera
would be more inclined to support plane1 than mathvariant, but
currently (version 10) doesn't support all these codepoints.

So, in summary, using this option doesn't currently generate
very portable files, but it's there to experiment with.
A more restrictive option that only converted (say) script,fraktur and
double-struck might me more useful, but I hate introducing temporary
hacks...

So, let's pretend this one is closed -- for now :>

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Thanks! My letters look great!

Unfortunately, it looks like I might have to work up a way to generate different pages for FF vs IE and Opera — well, I'm already doing html and xhtml+mathml versions of the pages...

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I guess necessity overcame the ugliness...

I've added another option --hackplane1 to latexmlpost
which causes only the mathvariants script, fraktur and doublestruck
to be converted to plane1. This generates mathml
that works with current firefox and mathplayer,
and displays "correctly", providing the appropriate fonts are installed.

Hopefully, it won't be needed for long, but there it is.

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