rendering HTML - cross-platform font issue?

["Carl E. Mungan" <mungan@USNA.EDU>]

> 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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