We have several audiences to whom we're trying to address general statements describing our approach and work on HTML-Math. These include (a) the OpenMath consortium at their workshop the weekend following this one, (b) Bill Hammond and his (our) colleagues on the Electronic Mathematics Journals list, and (c) the readers of the DLI-math list. The latter venue was suggested to me by Ralph Youngen after he spoke to some of the attendees of a recent CESSE (Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives) meeting, and found that the DLIers were inclined to "roll their own" after the meeting in Champaign. Apropos these PR efforts, I suggest we use our Monday call to discuss where we stand, what's clear, what isn't. I have been aiming to intersperse broad discussion with micro discussion between now and our meeting this fall, just because I think it's best to keep the full range of issues in the air as we develop ideas. Whatever we discuss on Monday will not include binding decisions, but will be part of the general air-clearing that goes on from time to time. I'm certainly not trying to exclude anyone from the conversation, recognizing still that some won't be able to participate. Given the 3 points of address listed above, this just seems like a good time to go over things. I had hoped to have a draft of a response to Bill Hammond out to you today. This may still happen, but it may also be delayed until the weekend. Even without this, we have the generalities of the Wolfram proposal (traditional notation, operator-precedence parsing to an expression tree, display list visual rendering, macros, template-matching, "notational" basis), many comments from Ping about the desirability/undesirability of some of these features, views of other constituencies (e.g. OpenMath and the TeX community as represented by Hammond's remarks), etc. which may be discussed. I'll compose a more definitive list of topics, but welcome suggestions, too. I'm also open to other suggestions for discussion as well. -RonReceived on Friday, 19 July 1996 11:32:59 UTC
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