>I've found the report below on the Web server of the ISO TC46/SC4/WG6 >(owner of the site: Eric van Herwijnen). For your convenience I've >removed the HTML tags and mailed it you. > >I'm getting a little bit concerned with the lack of progress in >this group and also with the impression Dave has given during the >Illinois workshop. *Are* we working on something here or are >we not? > >Nico I heard from Steve Hunt (at the paris HTML meeting) that Dave Ragget felt that it was worth pursuing a two phase approach, with the first phase being the basic syntax as Bruce and I have proposed (it was also shown at the SGML meeting, and the AMS people present liked it, at least in concept). Bruce will be sending out a detailed description soon (sometime next week?). If this approach is *generally* agreeable to people in the committee, then we could have a proposed standard in a month or so, depending on how much detail arguing we have. Phase two of the standards is the more iffy part: adding macros/mapping rules/ pattern mathching or whatever to allow for extensions of the base standard and easier authoring and conversion to other systems. I imagine this would be another year in the making. By providing a rich concrete syntax and character set, I think that we can satisfy almost everyone's desires for what they want out of HTML math. I think that phase one is what most people are looking for in the standard. NeilReceived on Friday, 10 May 1996 14:45:00 UTC
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