[whatwg] [Fwd: Re: Mathematics in HTML5]

White Lynx wrote:
> James Graham wrote:
>> However, 
>> elsewhere on this thread you have convinced me that a lot of CSS work is needed 
>> before it can display maths with any degree of complexity in a pleasant manner 
>> without requiring extensive, per-formula, adjustments to the style properties 
>> that would produce a considerable barrier to authoring.
> Default style sheet will handle arbitrary deep nesting patterns consistently 
> withour requiring ad hoc per-formula adjustments.
> 
I was thinking more along the lines of breaking formulae that are wider than the 
current column width, getting bracket sizes right without hand tweaking, 
uniform-size matrix cells, embedding of formulae inline, and the various other 
things that you suggest will not work within CSS.

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Received on Wednesday, 7 June 2006 04:28:01 UTC