Symbol font

[FunkyRes]

Fedora Core Linux
I have a TTF symbol font. It's not from Adobe, but as far as I can tell -
it has all the same glyphs available.

I've made the following entry into /etc/fonts/local.conf :

<alias>
<family>Symbol</family>
<prefer>
<family>SymbolProp BT</family>
</prefer>
</alias>

I've configured Firefox to use ttf by uncommenting the two lines in
fontEncoding.properties:

encoding.symbol.ttf = Adobe-Symbol-Encoding
encoding.symbol.ftcmap = mac_roman

but Firefox still complains about the Symbol font.
Here is what the font looks like in font.scale file:

tt9830z_.ttf -Bitstream-SymbolProp
BT-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-symbol

A) Is there anything I could do to make Firefox use that font for its
Symbol needs?

B) What does Symbol provide that cm, mathematica, and mtextra don't
provide? MathML looks fine to me, despite missing Symbol - but if I start
a new browser session, Firefox complains as soon as I go to a site that
uses MathML.

C) I might be able to get access to the Symbol-std.otf that Adobe
currently distributes. Would that shut up the message window, provide what
the other fonts don't provide, or would it not be worth getting?

Thanks for suggestings.

-=-
Yes, I know Acrobat Reader for Linux provides a font. But they don't have
a port to PPC Linux. Sure, I have x86 Linux too, I'm just wondering how to
get Mozilla to use my Symbol font that I do have, and what Symbol provides.

[FunkyRes]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:51:50 -0700, FunkyRes wrote:

*snip*

nevermind - after looking at all the Symbol stuff in bugzilla, I decided
trying to make it use my existing symbol ttf would be adding too many
uncertainties to what already seems prone to issues due to font encoding -
so I just grabbed the Adobe Symbol font from Acroread and that works
(well, don't know if it works, shuts off the message anyway)