Math Fonts


For many equations, MathCast requires an extra set of fonts, in order to display them correctly. These fonts do not come with MathCast, because of copyright issues. These are TeX's Computer Modern Fonts and Mathematica 4.1 Fonts.

There are two ways you can go about installing them:
  1. Download an installable package put together at MIT.
  2. Download the fonts and unzip them manually into the "Windows\Fonts\" folder.

MIT's Fonts Package

This is the simpler of the two options.

Download the package from this link:
http://web.mit.edu/atticus/www/mathml/mit-mathml-fonts-1.0-fc1.msi.

And follow the instructions located:
http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/webpublishing/mathml/fonts-win.html.


Installing the Fonts yourself

Download TeX's Computer Modern Fonts from:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/bakoma/texcm-ttf.zip.

The license for these fonts is found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/bakoma/license.txt

Download Mathematica 4.1 Fonts (Not 4.2) from Wolfram Research's site:
http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/windows/general/latestfonts.html.

Select the 4.1 True Type fonts.

After downloading the fonts, extract them into the "Windows\Fonts\" folder.


More Info

The STIX Fonts Project will release the final version of the free fonts for mathematics. When it will be out, hopefully it will be integrated into MathCast.

For more information about MathML fonts used by Mozilla, which is used by MathCast, read this page:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/.