Re: [PBG] Agenda for 20181009 call

Leonard-

I'm not sure what Dave meant, but I took it as a reference to Adobe InDesign and some of the less than helpful things it does with an EPUB export and that It is not easy to set math in InDesign. 

And there, he confirmed it. 

Same issues at PRH. 

Liisa

On 10/8/18, 4:27 PM, "Leonard Rosenthol" <lrosenth@adobe.com> wrote:

    > proprietary, unstable format (cough, Adobe, cough)?
    >
    Which "proprietary unstable format" are we referring to?   Flash?
    
    Certainly not PDF, which has been an open international standard for over 10 years now....
    
    Leonard
    
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    From: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com> 
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    To: Brian O'Leary <brian@bisg.org>
    Cc: McCloy-Kelley, Liisa <lmccloy-kelley@penguinrandomhouse.com>; public-publishingbg@w3.org; AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>; Johnson, Rick <Rick.Johnson@vitalsource.com>
    Subject: Re: [PBG] Agenda for 20181009 call
    
    On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 1:43 PM Brian O'Leary <brian@bisg.org> wrote:
    >
    > I agree with your reframing. There are knock-on workflow implications (eg, if I am heavily invested in Math ML and it isn’t what we need to make things work on the web, what do we do?), but we should be asking the question as you have outlined it here. Thanks for redirecting me.
    >
    
    MathML shares the fate of many XML vocabularies: being a crucial component of workflows, but being transformed to something else to display to the end user. We seem to have figured out the low-level languages of the web, but what about the higher-level languages? Where are the tools that allow us to work at a human scale without restricting us to a proprietary, unstable format (cough, Adobe, cough)? MathML is not particularly usable by humans.

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