- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:21:20 GMT
- To: Stephan.Semirat@ac-grenoble.fr
- Cc: Vincent.Quint@inria.fr, www-math@w3.org
> you only stretch parenthesis with what they contain, do you ?
That is not the model used by MathML, the model is that you stretch to
the surrounding element not the containing one.
TeX of course only has the "surrounding" model, which means that it has
to invent a special syntax for null delimiters to allow expressions with
just one bracket stretching,
{a
x={b
{c
and it has real problems with syntax such
as
( x | y)
with all three fences stretching.
the MathML model seems slightly strange at first but it deals much more
naturally with both those cases.
> So my view is that Mozilla has made the good choice...
But in this case it wasn't mozilla's choice to make, the choice was made
by the designers of MathML1 (not me:-)
David
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http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/matthew
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