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Re: Implementation Question -- accents

From: <rminer@geom.umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:26:36 -0500
Message-Id: <199607032026.PAA06822@royden.geom.umn.edu>
To: n.poppelier@elsevier.nl
Cc: w3c-math-erb@w3.org
>I believe you have to differentiate between accents (up, down or middle)
>and overline/underline. The way we use it in the Elsevier journal DTDs
>is as follows: accents are always over/under/through one symbol or character.
>Overline and underline can be over multiple characters. Default ornament
>is a line; other possibilities are ^ ~ { [ and a few more. There are also
>styles: all ornaments can be bold, some can double (line, [ () some
>can triple, be dashed, dotted. I can provide more details if people wish.


It seems to me we are going to have to add some additional layout
schema to handle these cases properly.  I would appreciate a few more
details so that we can propose adequately general layout schema to
accomodate them.

Robert 
Received on Wednesday, 3 July 1996 16:26:43 UTC

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