LaTeX LaTeX Font Different from Usual?

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The discussion centers around an issue with LaTeX output appearing in STIX fonts instead of the expected Computer Modern (cm) fonts on a Mac using Safari 5.1.1 and OS X Lion. It is noted that OS X 10.7 ships with STIX fonts, which MathJax prioritizes over web-based fonts like cm. A solution is suggested to disable STIX fonts using FontBook, which resolved the issue for the user, resulting in the output displaying correctly in Computer Modern. The final output was confirmed to resemble typical LaTeX formatting, aligning with standard expectations.
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That looks like STIX fonts instead of cmr. According to the MathJax site settings, both STIX and cm fonts are available, but cm fonts should be preferred.

Edit: see this: https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/178#issuecomment-2424202
"OS X 10.7 (Lion) ships with the STIX fonts installed, and MathJax will use those in preference to its web-based fonts."

Try using FontBook to disable STIX fonts. (Note that I'm not a Mac user.)
 
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That looks like STIX fonts instead of cmr. According to the MathJax site settings, both STIX and cm fonts are available, but cm fonts should be preferred.

Edit: see this: https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/178#issuecomment-2424202
"OS X 10.7 (Lion) ships with the STIX fonts installed, and MathJax will use those in preference to its web-based fonts."

Try using FontBook to disable STIX fonts. (Note that I'm not a Mac user.)

Thanks for looking that up. I had a hunch that maybe my computer was just displaying it using the wrong fonts, but I did not have the knowledge or savvy to know specifically what those fonts were and what to do about it. I opted Font Book and searched for STIX and disabled all of the font families that came up. The new result looks like this:

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4958/screenshot20120129at841.png

It certainly looks like computer modern. Does it seem comparable to how LaTeX looks in your browser?

Thanks again! :smile:
 
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Looks like computer modern to me.

Glad to be of help.
 

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