Re: Reminder: MathML intent meeting 5 Nov, 2020

Hi Neil,

I have a few comments regarding 2)

According to the HTML standard

https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/dom.html#element-definitions-attributes

attributes can contain an arbitrary string value.
While some common attributes have more complex values like the
event-attributes that specify a callback function or the style attribute
that specifies CSS values the proposed new attributes seem even more
complex to me.

This makes MathML the black sheep in the HTML family once again. Does the
majority of this group really think it is a good idea to encode tree
structures as part of XML / HTML documents that are inherently trees?
If the answer is yes, which I somehow assume, I still don't understand why
we can't use an existing language such as JS or (La)TeX or ... to represent
this tree structure.
Having to define, encode, implement, and maitain a new MathML costom logic
seems to require a very good reason.

Independent of that I have some questions about the attached example.

Why are do m and n both have arg=2 in msubsup(C, m, n) whereas x,y have arg
1,2 in binomial(x, y)?

In the second example

annotation: binomial(binomial( a,, b), binomial(x, y))

tex: \binom{\binom{a}{b}}{\binom{x}{y}}

why are there two commata within the first binomial annotation?

See you soon
Moritz

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 9:57 PM Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Onto November... We meet again on Thursday, 5 November at 10am Pacific,
> 1pm Eastern, 7pm Central European Time. Summertime is done for everyone.
>
> The zoom meeting link is the same one we have used at the last few intent
> meetings. Due to zoombombing, I can't send it out to the public mailing
> list. If you would like to join and don't have the link, please send me
> email at least 10 minutes before the meeting.
>
>
> Agenda:
> 1. Move to WG -- making sure there is consensus to do this. Last chance to
> make comments on charter
> <https://mathml-refresh.github.io/charter-drafts/math-2020.html>.
>
> 2. Continue discussion based on Deyans (live demo) ideas:
> https://dginev.github.io/tiny-mathml-a11y-demo/
>
>
> Sam can't make the meeting this week. Sam: I'm sure the whole group wishes
> best of luck on surgery!
>
>