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rendering HTML - cross-platform font issue?



Title: rendering HTML - cross-platform font issue?
Date:    Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:07:31 -0400
From:    "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
Subject: Re: degeneracy pressure
In particular
  http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/degeneracy.htm#sec-gas-pressure
contains a super-simple calculation of the compressibility
index (stiffness index) for a gas (degenerate or not) which
is central to understanding whether the star will collapse
or not.

Am I the only one who has difficulty reading JSD's HTML posts? Many of the symbols in the equations render incorrectly. Interestingly enough, they render differently in IE than in Netscape. I am using a Mac (OS 9.2.2 on a G3).

Example - for the first setoff equation (3) in the link above, this is what I get. (Email doesn't align things properly, but it does show the symbols I see in my browser. If you prefer, I can take a screenshot.)

IE 5.1.4:

P =             -
E

V ˆ
ˆ
ˆ
ˆ
 
const. S

Netscape 4.78 (I have some problems with Netscape 6 if you're wondering):

P =
   -
  ¶ E

  ¶ V

   *
   *
   *
   *                                                            
  const. S

Perhaps JSD might consider posting his documents in PDF instead? J. Ertel, in our department, has convinced me that the Symbol font is *not* cross-platform: it needs to be explicitly embedded in any document in which you use it. Carl
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Carl E. Mungan, Asst. Prof. of Physics  410-293-6680 (O) -3729 (F)
      U.S. Naval Academy, Stop 9C, Annapolis, MD 21402-5026
mungan@usna.edu    http://physics.usna.edu/physics/faculty/mungan/