rendering HTML - cross-platform font issue?
- From: "Carl E. Mungan" <mungan@USNA.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:57:03 -0400
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
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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