I am trying to use the unicode open-type font "STIXGeneral.otf" with Perl-Tk, for I am making a math word processor. In order to test this font, I have written a small Perl-Tk script (see below) and a small HTML file (displaying the same characters), in order to test this font. 
  use utf8;use Tk;
  $f="STIXGeneral";$c="\n";
  $s="\x{2014}"x2;$s=$c.$s."o".$s.$c;$p=" (Perl-Tk)";
  $s=$f.$p.$s."A B C D \x{300}x \x{302}x \x{303}x ".
    "\x{304}x".$c."\x{210C} \x{210E} \x{2112} \x{2115} ".
    "\x{2202} \x{2207} \x{2211} \x{221A}".$s;
  $m=MainWindow->new(-title=>'STIXtest (P. Assouad)');
  $m->geometry('400x400+40+40');
  $t=$m->Scrolled('Text')->pack();
  $t->configure(-font=>"{".$f."} 18 {normal}");
  $t->insert('1.0',$s); MainLoop();

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The results are the following : -- the Perl-Tk script works very well with Windows Vista, but very bad with Linux Ubuntu (the font is not recognized by Perl-Tk, although the browser recognizes it) ; -- the HTML file works very well with both Windows Vista and Linux Ubuntu. If I replace open-type by true-type, the things are not better. What do you think about ?

In reply to open-type fonts for Perl-Tk with Linux by patcat

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