Minutes: MathML intent meeting 20 Nov, 2020

The meeting was recorded:
https://benetech.zoom.us/rec/share/XiN_mZuD8y5kyds0OTourk1KGVYG7_eKXYW3dskVtgeiN7HoHgufJaSrveltqST1.OWBgx5IDHXJGRKMH
(Access Passcode: TB810!2.)  Meeting starts about 12 minutes in.

Attendees:

Neil Soiffer

Louis Maher

Bruce Miller

David Carlisle

Deyan Ginev

Steve Noble

Murray Sargent

David Farmer

Sam Dooley

David Farmer

Matthew Scroggins


No real minutes today as the conversation was technical and difficult to
minute. We walked through Sam’s intent document:
https://mathml-refresh.github.io/mathml/docs/intent.html
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Many questions were asked and Sam clarified what he meant and some areas of
concern were raised:

   -

   “@$op” notation which meant do the default thing for mrows; by using
   that, it prevents search from going into the mrows.
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   Neil raised his concern about nary operators, particular wrt to +/- and
   relation chains. Sam said his examples show how nesting can be done with
   either mrow structure or ‘intent’, but it doesn’t work for ‘flat’ structure.
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   Neil also expressed concern about named args in the integral example
   saying that naming the bound variable ($bvar) doesn’t seem to generalize
   well for double or triple integrals. Sam said those cases could be handled
   by the generating software by using different names like ($bvarx or $bvar1).

We didn’t quite get to the end of the document.

Thanksgiving is next week, so no meeting next week. We will meet in two
weeks.