- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 15 Oct 1996 10:55:10 +0100
- To: dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Dave writes: The one thing I would like to see in addition to what you are doing (which is fantastic and very useful) is an expansion of the entity names available in <MATH> mode, but I am not sure where to find a current list. The list at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html3/mathsym.html does not include That sounds like the one I cooked up last year. some symbold such as the partial derivative symbol &pd;, which arena clearly does render (see http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Arena/tour/math2.html). It does not include some greek capitals, which are listed at http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Arena/tour/symbols.html, and which arena clearly also does render. In addition to the things that arena does support, I think integral signs are very important, and it would be useful to be able to scale integral, summation and product signs in some way, though I appreciate that this is somewhat counter to the spirit of html (<FONT SIZE=> inside <MATH> for instance). Surely someone must have a more complete list of entities. My understanding is that the ISOams character entity sets held pretty much everything mathematicians wanted (at the time they were drawn up, of course). There's no reason why those shouldn't go in, although I'll be guided by implementors as to how they handle the big memory overhead, font mapping etc. Maybe it should be a marked section which math users can turn on. I hope to discuss this and more at SGML'96 next month. ///Peter
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