Do they agree? If so, you can read everything in this website
without problems. If not, read on.
Some browsers, particularly Firefox 3, no longer support <FONT
FACE="Font_name"> statements in the default configuration.
The argument for removal of this functionality is that the statement
is not HTML standards compliant. The decison however implies
that many mathematical web pages produced before 2005, and websites
locked in to older software, will need to be rewritten. There
is a small problem in that it isn't going to happen for information
which is no longer maintained, but it is presumably better to
throw away an entire cultural heritage than it is to allow non-conformity.
An applet-driven solution to the problem is given at everything2.com. However, using Firefox
on my Ubuntu Linux machine I find that when I close the browser
and re-open it, the bookmarklet has disappeared.
For other possible solutions, see:
 http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/Wfonts.html
.
http://nothing.golddave.com/?p=53 .
http://home.att.net/~numericana/about.htm#symbol
.
http://www.jesus.org.uk/vault/_symbol.htm
.
To solve the problem relating to the content available here,
I need to rewrite the numerous articles using HTML escape characters
( &symbol_name; ) or Unicode characters. Various small programs
exist to perform the character replacement operation, but letting
them loose on my HTML requires a complete and extremely thorough
proof read after the conversion. Since it takes several weeks
just to read through everything here (the AC Theory article on
its own is equivalent to about 110 sides of A4), it will take
a while.
A permanent (and preferred) solution
is to convert to Unicode and then copy everything into OO Writer.
I can then use the proper formatting offered by Writer, and the
Math editor for complicated equations, and export everything
to PDF. This should give protection against future software and
language 'upgrades', and results in professional-looking documents.
The process is however laborious, especially since online PDF
readers tend to permit arbitrary resizing, and this requires
an increase in the resolution of the graphics files if the final
result is to look good.
A fast and dirty solution, which
does not give full standards compliance, but makes pages readable
in Firefox 3, is to search through and replace all instances
of Symbol font with HTML escape characters (where possible).
This process is nearing completion. Those which have not yet
been reworked are marked (s).
Shown below is the Greek alphabet using HTML escape characters: |
