Re: menclose: several values in the "notation" attribute

Thanks for all your anwsers. In what I did for Firefox, the notations overlap so
I agree with this option. However, as Bruce indicated, some combinations are not
clear: for instance in the MathML testsuite, there is a notation "radical
circle"[1]. What are the rules you used to establish that only a radical should
be drawn (incompatibility between notations, priority, order of values...)?

[1]
http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/build/main/Presentation/GeneralLayout/menclose/menclose1-full.xhtml

> I'm very glad to hear you are improving Firefox's support.  The answer to
> your question is that they do *not* nest.  Use nested mencloses to achieve
> that.  The order is not important.
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
> ~ Makers of Equation Editor, MathType, MathPlayer and MathFlow ~
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Bruce Miller <bruce.miller@nist.gov> wrote:
>
> >
> > fred.wang@free.fr wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to add support for <menclose/> in Firefox and I wonder what
> >> should be
> >> displayed when several values are given to the "notation" attribute. What
> >> I
> >> think is that order and repetition of the values don't matter: "box circle
> >> box"
> >> is the same as "box circle" or "circle box". Is it right?
> >>
> >
> > Interesting question
> > [... that the WG should sort out for MathML 3 :> ]
> >
> > My first inclination would be to think of them as
> > nesting (a box around a circle around the content,
> > versus a circle around a box around the content),
> > simply because it is hard to see (and harder to specify)
> > how many of the various pairs should overlap
> > (eg. how should "radical roundedbox" look?)
> >
> > OTOH, I suspect the original intention was that
> > they would overlap (in which case the order doesn't
> > matter), since that can create many more effects
> > than we would want to list as explicit values.
> >
> > Further, nesting can easily, and more clearly,
> > be done simply by nesting <menclose>'s.
> >
> > If this is the concensus of the WG, we at least
> > should clarify this.
> >
> > speaking for myself,
> > bruce
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
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