- From: T. V. Raman <raman@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:18:32 -0800
- To: "Kasday, Leonard R (Len), ALTEC" <kasday@att.com>
- Cc: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Len (and others) Please dont dismiss the MathML work too lightly. We agonized over the trade-offs between semantic and presentational markup and I persoanlly believe that the MathML specification does an outstanding job of addressing both camps. There are quirks like phantom present in there as Chris pointed out, but these were also left in because they were felt to be essential for certain presentations. Also, to address Chris's point about static DTDs being restrictive and inadequate for math I fully agree and have been saying this ever since I built AsTeR to handle LaTeX documents --this is one of LaTeX's significant advantages over SGML in my opinion. Again, we did our best in the MathML work to make sure that the language was extensible in the sense LaTeX is, but at the same time remains something that can be validated --something that is hard to say of a Turing complete language like TeX. -- Best Regards, --raman Adobe Systems Tel: 1 (408) 536 3945 (W14-129) Advanced Technology Group Fax: 1 (408) 537 4042 (W14 129) 345 Park Avenue Email: raman@adobe.com San Jose , CA 95110 -2704 Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu http://labrador.corp.adobe.com/~raman/ (Adobe Intranet) http://cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.html (Cornell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are my own and in no way should be taken as representative of my employer, Adobe Systems Inc. ____________________________________________________________
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