- From: T. V. Raman <raman@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:15:32 -0800
- To: "Kasday, Leonard R (Len), ALTEC" <kasday@att.com>
- Cc: "'raman@Adobe.COM'" <raman@Adobe.COM>, "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Len-- I have not had time to carefully study the "semantic notation' that was posted here -- and I also think it would be hard to judge its merits or demerits by just looking at one particular equation (Maxwell's equation) in this case. This is not to cast any doubt on the design of that proposed markup-- all I am saying is that I have not had time to study it carefully nor do I expect to have the time do so. However the folks on the MathML committee have thought over these issues long and hard and the work is mature --it has been in development for over two years. The tone of your message indicates that you in turn have perhaps not studied MathML carefully-- I say this because you appear to give the impression that MathML is purely presentational which is far from the truth. Anyway, all I can say at this point is: A) MathML is carefully thought out and well designed to address both the needs of semantic markup while still preserving the ability to do good presentation b) From experience I can confidently say that attempting to design it will take another two years and yield a result not too different from what we have At this point the need is for software that will render MathML in alternate formats and provide some badly needed user tools as opposed to re-embark on some new Not-invented-here exercise. -- 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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