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Public bug reported:

For some historical reasons, the firefox package suggests fonts-lyx
which contains "TeX's Computer Modern Fonts" that were needed for the
MathML support of Gecko 1.8 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/FontsMozilla1.8). Support for these fonts
has been removed for a very long time and it is now recommended to use
modern OpenType MATH fonts instead (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts).     Hence the firefox package
should instead suggest the following math fonts:

* Latin Modern = "computer modern" style used by default in LaTeXn compatible with the old true type fonts.
* STIX fonts (fonts-stix) = fonts created by a consortium of scientific orgs, with large unicode coverage for math symbols.

(Note that Debian already suggests STIX and I opened
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792012)

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Suggest OpenType MATH fonts instead of TrueType TeX fonts

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For some historical reasons, the firefox package suggests fonts-lyx
  which contains "TeX's Computer Modern Fonts" that were needed for the
  MathML support of Gecko 1.8 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
  US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/FontsMozilla1.8). Support for these
  fonts has been removed for a very long time and it is now recommended
  to use modern OpenType MATH fonts instead
  (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
  US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts).     Hence the firefox package
  should instead suggest the following math fonts:

  * Latin Modern = "computer modern" style used by default in LaTeXn compatible with the old true type fonts.
  * STIX fonts (fonts-stix) = fonts created by a consortium of scientific orgs, with large unicode coverage for math symbols.

  (Note that Debian already suggests STIX and I opened
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792012)

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