- From: Vincent Quint <Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:31:27 +0200
- To: Michael Bowen <fizzbowen@mindspring.com>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org, Vincent.Quint@inrialpes.fr
Thanks for pointing this out. There was a mistake in a conversion table. It's fixed now in the CVS base. It will be available with the next binary release. Vincent. Michael Bowen wrote: > 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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