Re: When to stretch parentheses

 is (in my opinion) acceptable. So maybe the rule should be flexible 
 and could depend on the operators between the subelements.

The current rule allows the author to unambiguously specify whether
you want the two groups of parens in 
(x)=(y)
to be sized separately based on the size of x and y, or whether you want
all four parens to be equal sized, based on the largest part of the
subexpression.

For the first case use (omitting  all tagging except mrow)

<mrow>(x)</mrow>=<mrow>(y)</mrow>

for the second case use

<mrow>(x)=(y)</mrow>

with, ideally, some extra grouping as well, eg that last one should
probably be
<mrow>(<mrow>x</mrow>)</mrow>=<mrow>(<mrow>y</mrow>)</mrow>

Although the inner mrows are for other purpses, they don't affect the
size of the parentheses which is the issue here.


> Or rather that the spec does not specify the best rendering in this
> case.

As others have pointed out, the spec does specify the rendering to use
here (it doesn't say whether that is best or not, but that is another
matter:-)

David

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Received on Friday, 30 January 2004 08:35:03 UTC