Re: New writeup for intent examples

Neil,

I've now done an update, so we can discuss on the call.

Thanks,
Sam


On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:58 PM Neil Soiffer <soiffer@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I figured I should read more carefully what you wrote in
> https://mathml-refresh.github.io/mathml/docs/intent.html even though you
> hadn't done an update yet. In case you didn't fix it, the MathML for
> "Binomial as stacked numbers" is not right. Probably you want it to be an
> mfrac, but an mtable could also be used. Kind of garbled in the version I
> read.
>
> I still don't like the way you handle plus/minus, but that's not really a
> criticism of the intent idea...
>
> I don't think the "Differential alone in the numerator" is correct. The
> 'intent' on the mfrac should block the higher level intent from seeing the
> 'x' inside it. Further, the 'x' should not be in an <mtext>. Same issues
> for the next differential examples.
>
>     Neil
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:41 PM Sam Dooley <samdooley64@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Regrets for tomorrow's meeting, I will be having cataract surgery.
>>
>> https://mathml-refresh.github.io/mathml/docs/intent.html
>>
>> On the plus side, I did my homework, and created a new document to
>> describe as best I can what I believe is the latest consensus on the intent
>> attribute.  Not the final word, as there are still things to discuss, and
>> it is certainly biased toward my preferences, but hopefully not too badly.
>>
>> I was able to include examples that should address Bruce's concerns with
>> the handling of transpose.  To be continued.
>>
>> If an element has sub elements with intent, then intent="fn" will collect
>> them as arguments to fn.  If an element has no such sub elements, then
>> intent="transpose" gives the intent of the transpose function itself, with
>> no arguments.  If an operator has no arguments, and you want the intent of
>> the application of the function, use intent="fn()".  Easy as pi, but we
>> should discuss.
>>
>> The operator name can be placed on the enclosing element for the apply,
>> or on an element that gives markup for the operator.  This should allow for
>> what folks want, but we should discuss.
>>
>> I've included examples with both argument index references, and argument
>> name references.  I'd really like to avoid XPath references.
>>
>> I was able to expand on Bruce's examples where multiple
>> infix/prefix/postfix operators appear in a single mrow, and I marked up
>> both minimal-mrow and complete-mrow versions of each example.  To be
>> discussed.
>>
>> I've included examples with integrals of fractions where the differential
>> is included in the fraction.  We should discuss scoping of argument name
>> references.
>>
>> I've not said anything about literal references, which I intend to add.
>>
>> Oh yes, and I still need to convert this to markdown, once we stop adding
>> examples to it.  I've not gone through the entire encyclopaedia.
>>
>> This version is intended to be more descriptive than prescriptive.  The
>> examples are informally grouped to illustrate how to use the syntax.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Sam
>>
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