- From: Urs Holzer <urs@andonyar.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:14:11 +0200
- To: Neil Soiffer <NeilS@dessci.com>
- Cc: Ionel Alexandru <ionel.alexandru@gmail.com>, www-math@w3.org
Allow me to join this discussion. Neil Soiffer wrote: > For the use cases of tables in math, each cell is laid out > horizontal, line wrapping contents if needed because of a width > restriction. The cells, and ultimately the table, will then have a > height that is computed based on the width of each cell. > Restricting a table to a page or column width is common in laying > out tables. A height restriction would imply that widths are not > constrained so that the height restriction can be met. Of the to of > my head, I think it would be difficult to implement since multiple > widths would need to be tried. > > I am unaware of a use case for restricting or setting an explicit > height. Do you have a use case in mind? Simple commutative diagrams could be built using tables. To make them look better one could adjust the height of certain rows as well as the width of certain columns. This would work good because a stretchy operator (for example an arrow) stretches to the size of the mtd if it is it is the sole subexpression of the mtd. Is there another way to achieve the same in MathML? Anyway, for commutative diagrams, one perhaps better uses SVG (or even better, MathML in SVG). Greetings Urs
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