Re: AbiMathView rendering problems

From: Martin Sevior <msevior_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 12:21:05 CET

Hmm a little further investigation shows that "p" always screws up the
equation even if entered with latex. If you use x,y,z,k and many other
characters, things work fine. However putting a "p" into an equation
totally screws things! Very strange indeed!

Martin

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>         Thank you very much. I confirm this bug. Could please open a
> bugzilla entry for it at:
>
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/
>
>  Most people use latex to input math equations into AbiWord which
> might be why this bug has gone so long without detection.
>
> Luca, do you have any idea what is happening here?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Martin
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Erik Heinz <eh2008@42net.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the AbiMathView plugin ist quite a useful tool and I really like it.
>> However, sometimes it produces rendering errors for me.
>>
>> For example, the mathml demo http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/test1.xml
>> is not displayed correctly, while the standanlone viewer from gtkmathview
>> does it perfectly. The problem seems to be related to AbiMathView assuming
>> wrong metrics for certain characters. If, for instance, I use a "p" inside
>> an expression, the character following the "p" overlaps it as if the width
>> of the "p" is taken too small.
>>
>> I have installed the Computer Modern fonts as ttf and AbiWord uses them.
>> Outside AbiMathView, AbiWord displays these fonts correctly and particularily
>> the width of the "p" is correct. Moreover, other gtkmathview applications
>> also using the Computer Modern fonts don't have this problem.
>>
>> I'm using AbiWord-2.6.6 and gtkmathview-0.8.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Erik
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