Re: maxwidth and mtext

As David said, indentation is controlled by the indentaiton attributes, in
particular
   indentalign='left'

will say to align on the left.


Neil Soiffer
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:12 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:

>  On 12/06/2014 15:24, Daniel Marques wrote:
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>  Hello all,
>
> Just some doubts about mtext and maxwidth when the mtext is broader than
> “maxwidth”. For example, given the following mathml,
>
> <math maxwidth=’50px’>
>                 <mn>1000</mn>
>                 <mtext>This is a long comment</mtext>
> </math>
>
> My question is whether the result is something like:
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>
> (a)
> 1000 This is a long
> comment
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> or
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>
> (b)
> 1000 This is a long
>           comment
>
>
>
> Breaking within mtext is covered by 3.1.7.1 which says
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> even within a token element such as a very long mn element. MathML does
> not provide a means to specify such linebreaks, but if a render chooses to
> linebreak at such a point, it should indent the following line according to
> the indentation attributes
> <http://www.w3.org/Math/draft-spec/mathml.html#chapter3_presm.lbindent.attrs>
> that are in effect at that point.
>
>
> since indentalign defaults to auto there is some flexibility in what you
> should do but flush left seems reasonable to me
>
> you can force (b) without using css by setting up a new line breaking
> context via mtable
>
> <mn>100</mn><mtable><mtr><mtd><mtext>This is a long comment
>
> David
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