I'll mail this out while it's fresh in my head: The document http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Math/Group/Wolfram/general.html contains the following statement which I completely disagree with (at least as stated here). Rendering into other media (such as speech) is expected to communicate, essentially, a "mental picture" of the 2-dimensional form of an expression. (Rationale: since almost all mathematics is conventionally expressed in 2-dimensional graphical form, most notations in that medium have no standard version in other media.) Reason I disagree: Renderings in speech need to convey more than a "2D picture" of the expression. Check out (listen to ) some of the demos on my AsTeR WWW site-- they make the point about spoken renderings being *independent* of the visual 2D layout far better than I am capable of in a plain-text email message. Given that the contentious statement appears in our "rationale" document, I thought it sufficiently importatn to have clarified. --Raman Thanks, --Raman -- Best Regards, ____________________________________________________________________________ --raman Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (415) 962 3945 (B-1 115) Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (415) 962 6063 1585 Charleston Road Email: raman@adobe.com Mountain View, CA 94039 -7900 raman@cs.cornell.edu http://www-atg/People/Raman.html (Internal To Adobe) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/raman.html (Cornell) Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. ____________________________________________________________________________Received on Monday, 18 March 1996 12:24:06 UTC
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