Minutes: MathML intent meeting, 15 April

Attendees:

David Carlisle

David Farmer

Patrick Ion

Paul Libbrecht

Louis Maher

Murray Sargent

Neil Soiffer

Laurence Zaysser

Moritz Schulbot

Deyan Ginev

Bruce Miller

Steve Noble

Thanks to Louis for once again taking notes.

Agenda:

1.  Announcements/updates

    NS: The working group has been started.

Everyone is invited to join.

There are currently two mailing lists associated with the group,

www-math@w3.org (public) and member-math@w3.org (member-confidential).

All administrative information about the group is visible here:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/math <https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/math>

NS: Two more CG meetings.  The first WG meeting will be on May 6.

2. Laurance to discuss uses of copy/paste and other things from a
publisher's perspective

LZ: Showed her company’s ecosystem.

Their content has to be usable by reading machines.

They can not specify reading systems capabilities.

MathML is not fully supported.

They produce math equations as images.

They need standards so their content can be readable by others.

They try to use off the shelf software. They also use proprietary software.

They are moving to HTML5.

There are few subcontractors that can deal with MathML.

The contractors can handle HTML.

NS: Can people use TeX to MathML converters?

LZ: Said the people who receive the contractor output can not see if it is
proper MathML.

NS: Do you have accessibility requirements?

LZ: They hope to have everything accessible by 2025. They want to remove
images from their output.

BM: Publishers always had problems publishing mathematics.

Publishers do not use content oriented MathML.

SD: Pearson uses content MathML.

LZ: We have problems handling the case when a student enters math.  How do
we check its correctness? Do we need the student to exactly match the
desired answer?

SD: Pearson provided a content math editor to help students to enter
answers.  The editor would deliver content MathML to the evaluation engine
to check the students’ answer.

NS: The working group will start in three weeks.