- From: Michael Bowen <fizzbowen@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 17:21:05 -0700
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
I am using Amaya to create MathML snippets for my mostly non-mathematical web pages. I noticed that the Greek Alphabet menu in the Amaya MathML editor also contains some handy math symbols, one of which is the approximately-equal symbol, located in the fourth row of the grid, immediately to the left of capital Greek "alpha". (It looks like a tilde stacked on top of a standard equals sign.) One of my "equations" is only approximately correct, so I tried to use this symbol for the first time today. Upon clicking the symbol, Amaya incorrectly writes this into the file as the character entity ≡, rather than as ≅ (equivalent to ≅ or U+2245, according to Chapter 24 of the HTML 4.0 spec). The next time Amaya opens, it displays the incorrect expression as an identity symbol (this looks like an equals sign with a 50% bonus). Although I can fix the symbol by hand (and it thankfully stays fixed, once I correct it), I am hoping that the fix would be a "quickie" replacement of the ≡ string with a ≅ string in a table somewhere. Unfortunately, IANAP (I am not a programmer), so I can't do it myself. I am running the Windows 95/98 precompiled binary, downloaded from the public Amaya site. Thank you for your consideration. --MB
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