I'm working on Intrepid and Mathematica is giving me a hard time. I already posted a bug report a while ago, but I wasn't able to solve the issue. Here is the description of the problem:
I used mathematica 6.0.1 on hardy and everything worked fine. After the upgrade to intrepid, the fonts disappeared, which I identified to be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/197163 . Running with the -defaultvisual option provided a workaround, but many characters, even simple ones like the slash /, where displayed as a box or very ugly. Thus, I upgraded to mathematica 6.0.3, where all the problems are supposed to be solved. Now, I can run mathematica without the -defaultvisual option, however, the display problems remain. As mentioned, everything started with the upgrade to intrepid. I attached a screenshot where mathematica displays the following \frac{6/7}{\sqrt{\pi}}
In this form, mathematica is unusable. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem or how to find a workaround?
I hope crosspostings with an old launchpad bugreport are not against the forum policy here.