RE: linebreaking mathml

You raise a reasonable point.  While the CSS nowrap directive is
probably a reasonable solution in Web contexts, it seems like there
should be a way of disabling line breaking in MathML in non-CSS
environments.

--Robert

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-math-request@w3.org [mailto:www-math-request@w3.org] On
Behalf
> Of William F Hammond
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:17 PM
> To: www-math@w3.org
> Subject: Re: linebreaking mathml
> 
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> You write on an issue concerning presentation MathML in web browsers:
> 
> >   I suppose that when MathML was originally developed,
> > the authors imagined that the browser would be responsible
> > for line breaking.  ...
> 
> I am concerned with the community of authors having TeX backgrounds.
> As one such author I want complete control over linebreaks in math.
> I believe this is the general attitude among TeX users for traditional
> print.
> 
> I want to emulate that as much as possible in XHTML+MathML.
> 
> Accordingly for all <math> elements I set the "white-space" CSS
> property to "nowrap".  For examples such as you suggest I use <mtable>
> with no more than 3 cells per row as the sole content of <math> in
> display mode.  When there is insufficient width of the user's browser,
> the window will require horizontal scrolling.
> 
> As author I limit the width of content so that the need for horizontal
> scrolling should not arise with a font of default size in a browser
> window that is 60% of the width of a 1280x1024 display.
> 
> The width limitation is natural when I am using one source markup for
> both XHTML+MathML and print (via LaTeX).
> 
> 
>                                     -- Bill
>

Received on Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:18:58 UTC