- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:01:34 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, David Carlisle wrote: > > A process question first, is it best to make comments in email or via > the wiki? E-mail is ideal for me, but either works. > I think specifically you should use the version of these from > http://www.w3.org/tr/xml-entity-names (some future REC version, rather > than its current first working draft version) This will be the same as > the MathML3 entities, and it will hopefully be better aligned with > Unicode 5, stix fonts etc, and it will certainly be aligned with HTML. > The MathML2 entities differ in one or two places from the HTML ones (phi > and some others) which has the bad effect that for xhtml+mathml the > exact definition of the entity in effect depends on the (arcane) details > of the way you merged the dtds. (The MathML2 entity definitions were > trying to be compatible with both html and docbook, as they both use > mathml, but unfortunately they were mutually incompatible, however > docbook 5 doesn't define its own entity set anymore and defers to the > above (or rather to http://www.w3.org/2003/entities, which is the > editor's draft of same). A merged/sorted/deduplicated entity file for > ISO/HTML/MathML is > > http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/w3centities-f.ent Thanks for the info, I'll take this into consideration. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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