- From: <rminer@geom.umn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:57:03 -0500
- To: thore@brics.dk
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
Hello. Thanks very much for your comments and your interest in MathML. I am leaving for a week of traveling tomorrow, so I wanted to respond before I go. However, I'll have to be brief. Perhaps someone else from the working group will pick up the thread. On linebreaking: Our intention is that the only legitimate places to break a line is between items in an MROW. We will try to say more on this. Other people have commented that the name MROW is misleading, and I would welcome suggestion for a better one. On stretchy operators, etc. As you point out, there is no automatic mechanism for doing "global optimization" of the typesetting in expressions, for example to make integral signs the same size. However, it is still possible to do this by hand, using "minsize" and "maxsize". Another point worth making is that math typesetting style handbooks such as the one you refer too (I am not familiar with it -- thanks for the reference) were written in an era of metal type. At least one working group member contends that there is no compelling reason to limit things like delimiters to discrete size increments on a device capable of displaying any size. I myself would like to stick relatively close to traditional typesetting, but I do take the point that good typesetting on paper and good typesetting on a low resolution screen might be different. On numbers: This is a real issue, also raised by others. It must be clarified. If you have ideas on the subject, I would welcome them. Robert Miner HTML Math working group co-chair
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