RE: The MQ (or not) issue; what we are seeking

Fixing the subject line

Bill Kasdorf

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From: Bill Kasdorf
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 11:00 AM
To: Alan Stearns; Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken; Peter Krautzberger; public-digipub-ig@w3.org
Subject: RE: [dpub] agenda 20161003

I still think we're missing the point of the initial request. And maybe the ensuing discussion reveals that MQ (despite its apparent appealing simplicity as the _interim_ solution we are looking for) is not going to work and we need to come up with another tack that _will work right now_, not a year or two years or a decade from now.

Here's what we need.

--Publisher has MathML.
To recap what I've said a gazillion times, STM publishers generate literally millions of equations as MathML. I wouldn't be surprised if the organization I work for _itself_ produces millions of equations as MathML _every year_. Yes, we have to do some tweaks sometimes to work around things that go wrong, but _we do that_ because the value of the MathML in the workflow is unquestionable. We could not do what we do without it.

--Publisher creates image of equation from MathML.
I am a huge fan of MathJax, and I am thrilled at the developments over the past year, wrt both server-side functionality and accessibility enhancement. Kudos to Peter and co. SVG or HTML+CSS or .jpg, the publisher has controlled "this is what the equation must look like." Visually.

--Publisher puts BOTH the MathML and the image in an EPUB.
Publishers are NOT doing this now because they can't trust that the image will be used when the MathML support is insufficient; they just want to provide the image to be safe. They don't put the MathML in the EPUB because then some reading systems try to use it and mess it up or don't even realize they should use the image.

--Publisher has a way to say "use the image for visual rendering and make the MathML available to AT."
This is what we need RIGHT NOW while the industry struggles to come up with a real solution, which may or may not ultimately involve rendering MathML reliably (though of course remember those millions of equations rendered from MathML that STM publishers find quite acceptable).

--Reading systems actually do that.

We are not looking for an assertion that a reading system will render the MathML perfectly. That may be the reason the appealing MQ assertion won't fly.

What we need is an interim solution that will make it safe for publishers to deliver the MathML along with the image that they want displayed visually. For now.

Bill Kasdorf

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From: Alan Stearns [mailto:stearns@adobe.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 10:25 AM
To: Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken; Peter Krautzberger; public-digipub-ig@w3.org<mailto:public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [dpub] agenda 20161003

Tzviya,

I thought exactly the same thing when I read it, but Peter had beat me to it. There’s already a long thread discussing this on www-style.

Thanks,

Alan

From: "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>>
Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 5:24 AM
To: Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org<mailto:peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org>>, "public-digipub-ig@w3.org<mailto:public-digipub-ig@w3.org>" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org<mailto:public-digipub-ig@w3.org>>
Cc: W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org<mailto:public-digipub-ig@w3.org>>
Subject: RE: [dpub] agenda 20161003
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Thanks, Peter. I think it would be helpful to pass this on to the CSS WG.

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Lead
Wiley
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From: Peter Krautzberger [mailto:peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2016 10:37 AM
To: public-digipub-ig@w3.org<mailto:public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
Cc: W3C Digital Publishing IG
Subject: Re: [dpub] agenda 20161003


Regrets from me. It's a public holiday where I live.

But I wrote up my thoughts on the media query at https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0190/


As I said in the breakout meeting, this is my personal opinion and what I would tell my clients.

Best,
Peter.

On Sep 30, 2016 3:50 PM, "Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>> wrote:

Hi DPUB,



Below is the draft agenda for next week's IG concall, to be held at the usual time and day [0].



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Agenda:

* Approve minutes [2] [3] [4]

* New Meeting time: beginning next week,  10 Oct, Monday. 16:00 UTC/12:00 EDT/18:00 CET

* Post-TPAC Action items: See list below

* Remember to fill out post-TPAC Survey [5]





Post TPAC Action items:

•          WCAG: (@Avneesh/Charles)

o   provide techniques etc from EPUB to AWK and JO by Dec,

o   see https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/ (already reviewed).

o   schedule joint call (chairs can coordinate scheduling)

o   See https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/WCAG_2.1_Success_Criteria for info about writing new success criteria and https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/1 for SC template.

•         CSS

o   Provide Dean Jackson with information about why publishers need tables

o   Clarify with Peter K what status of Math MQ is and next steps

o   @dave – look into InDesign hanging punctuation

o   @david_wood: table samples to Dean Jackson

o   @liam – XSL-FO => CSS-FO

•         (P)WP:

o   https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/track/actions/64 @Tzviya assign Heather’s issues to individuals

o   @Leonard dedupe PWP-UCR

o   @Heather reorg PWP-UCR

o   @brady action 65: split PWP into review chunks

o   Many have been assigned github issues. Please check to see if you’ve been assigned an issue. Pay attention to the issues.

o   Future: look into Object Model for WP

•         POE:

o   Tzviya/BillK to reach out to Journals Publishers re: POE, ODRL mapping





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