Re: Leading minus sign in table cell from Lars Bruzelius on 2004-12-03 (www-amaya@w3.org from October to December 2004)

From: Lars Bruzelius <Lars.Bruzelius@home.udac.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:38:37 +0100
To: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.0.20041203110739.01cecc20@popmail.udac.net>

At 2004-12-02 18:30, Irene Vatton wrote:

>Le Jeudi 02 DÃ©cembre 2004 11:02, Lars Bruzelius a Ã©critÂ :
> > It does not seem to be possible to enter a leading minus sign in a (MathML)
> > table cell. Amaya generates the follwing code if the minus sign is selected
> > from the Greek alphabet tablet:
> >
> >        <mtd>
> >          <mo>Â¯</mo>
> >        </mtd>
> >
> > instead of the expected:
> >
> >        <mtd>
> >          <mo>&minus;</mo>
> >        </mtd>
>
>Alphanumeric are possible only if there is a Doctype. In other cases we need
>to generate an numeric entity.
>But I guess your request is to generate the Unicode value 8722 instead of
>the character '-'?
>What is the benefit?

May be I should have been more explicit. Selecting the minus character from 
the Greek alphabet tablet when editing MathML normally generates the 
symbolic variable "&minus;", whatever Unicode value that character is, but 
in the case described the glyph "¯" (hexadecimal AF) is inserted instead.



Lars Bruzelius

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