- From: <bglbv@my-deja.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:59:27 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
In reply to Reynier Peletier's query about how to make Amaya-generated documents that use MathML readable with non-MathML compliant browsers, I would suggest that he stick to old-fashioned approaches like latex2html until such time as the browser market catches up. I'm impressed by his statement that he was able to use Amaya's MathML authoring support effectively. I still haven't got the hang of it. Could he, or anyone else, explain succinctly how to quickly compose what I would express in TeX as $$ R^{\mu}\!_{\rho}{}^{\nu\rho} $$ ? A stumbling block has been how to put two symbols in a superscript. Getting the indices to line up properly is also... interesting. I'm also disappointed that Amaya has chosen to implement the "presentation" variant of mathematical mark-up rather than the content-oriented one. I would find the latter more natural (and more likely to be supported by aural browsers, not to mention future versions of latex2html). I understand it's only a prototype and that resources are limited, but still. (Will the new box model Irčne is working on be good enough to match the power of TeX's? _That_ would be interesting to have.) Back to Reynier's question: most people know that the <img> HTML element supports an attribute called "alt" that lets one supply an alternative for situations where the image cannot be displayed. Is there an easy way in XHTML to specify one or more "alt"ernatives for those browsers that don't support MathML mark-up? (One such alternative might be an inline image, but when using Lynx I'd actually prefer to see straight TeX or similar mark-up since the image won't display either.) If it turns out there is a good solution, maybe someone will actually implement it.
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