- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:31:50 -0400
- To: Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Paul Topping <pault@dessci.com>
- Cc: Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com>, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org>
On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 18:47 +0000, Bill Kasdorf wrote: > [...] people are viewing MathML, and the potential for using MQs in > EPUBs, simply as a display/rendering issue. I think that this is a majority view for Web and HTML people - even though it's not a view shared e.g. by most XML people, who tend to be interested in reuse. EPUB straddles the boundary here. It might be the case that a standardized, reversible MathML <-> SVG mapping could go a long way, although there are a number of limitations with the SVG approaches I've seen so far, including breaking equations over long lines, aligning the dominant equation baseline correctly, vertical alignment of = signs of a series of equations, correct placement of equation numbers at or in the margin. But there are limitations with MathML in practice too (such as it not working at all in a browser or reader). And there are other use cases for breaking SVG diagrams across lines (e.g. Manga, or making accessible infographics) and for margin alignment, so maybe there's more promise in what Robin called I think the pretty squiggles than it might seem at first. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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