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Harry Gindi comments on "Report: How to fix wonky TeX characters" (12428)

Harry Gindi — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:06:55 -0800

No, thank you! (No touch-backs!)

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Report: How to fix wonky TeX characters" (12427)

Anton Geraschenko — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:28:07 -0800

Thanks.

Harry Gindi comments on "Report: How to fix wonky TeX characters" (12426)

Harry Gindi — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:22:39 -0800

Fixed!

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Report: How to fix wonky TeX characters" (12414)

Anton Geraschenko — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:37:09 -0800

I've implemented Davide's workaround. Could you please test it for me? (You should clear your cache and remove the mjx.menu cookie from MO)

(Note to future self: Davide created an issue in the tracker for this problem. When that gets resolved, undo this workaround)

Harry Gindi comments on "Report: How to fix wonky TeX characters" (12406)

Harry Gindi — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:35:30 -0800

@Anton:

Davide posted a workaround that you could set up.

http://groups.google.com/group/mathjax-users/browse_thread/thread/3d0aacec28049a2

Harry Gindi comments on "Report: How to fix wonky TeX characters" (12404)

Harry Gindi — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:37:06 -0800

Okay, now I'm having the following problem, but only in Opera (a substantial improvement from before): \mathcal gives me chinese characters (when the STIX fonts are installed at all).

Harry Gindi comments on "Report: How to fix wonky TeX characters" (12398)

Harry Gindi — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:00:33 -0800

For as long as MO has used MathJax, I've noticed that a lot of the characters were malfunctioning (in particular, symbols like \bigoplus, \bigotimes, \prod, \coprod, etc) (in particular, they were offset downwards (the baseline was assumed to be the middle of the character, not the bottom)).

Anyway, I realized that the thing causing the problem was that I had installed an old version of the "mathjax fonts" from the mathjax package, the public beta version of the STIX fonts, and the jsMath fonts. I deleted all of them and installed the 1.0 version of the Stix fonts, and now everything looks the way it should.

Just posting this in case anybody else had similar problems.