Minutes: MathML Core meeting August 24, 2020

Attendees:

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   Neil Soiffer
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   Patrick Ion
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   David Carlisle
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   Brian Kardell
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   Murray Sargent
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   Bruce Miller
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   Louis Maher




Agenda:
https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/8#issuecomment-678907701

The meeting was recorded:
https://benetech.zoom.us/rec/share/29x0MaGz0URJQc_csGbScPYgB9u7X6a8hHVL8voPnk-wrma_G5gzK6gf_as_mITI
Passcode: 51rKzz+?  (meetings starts about 7 minutes in)

Minimal minutes this time
MathML WG charter items
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W-oYUbOMueaqb3KFSWkjWVBwR6AzSEBizHwQhvSwfDc/edit>

General discussion about resolving what should go in core and how to make
that decision. Also, what can be in the charter regarding that. Issue 146
(hyphen-minus) was used as an example for a good part of the discussion as
currently Igalia doesn’t plan to support it but the other browsers do as do
almost all other MathML software.
Resolving more issues:Describe how to layout DOM elements violating HTML5
model #187 <https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/187> & #15
<https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/15> (Webkit/Gecko
preferences update?)

Seems like Webkit/Gecko are on board -- reopen if needed. We’ve reached out
to them about it.

Remove/Deprecate subscriptshift/superscriptshift attributes of
msubsup/msup/msub #27 <https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/27>

NS: Not much documented usage, but the need comes up in Chemistry

DC: there is definitely a need, TeX does this in various ways like struts
to force common heights.

DC: Probably the TeX chemistry packages change the font param. I would need
to look.

DC: people who really care like a journal editor would create their own
font with changes to the params.

MS: Office handles them by building a structure, but then ignores those
structures.

BM: You can probably use CSS for a chemistry class.

Resolved: remove from core

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