- From: Roger B. Sidje <rbs@maths.uq.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 13:10:02 +1000
- To: Robert Miner <rminer@geomtech.com>
- CC: davidc@nag.co.uk, www-math@w3.org
Robert Miner wrote: > > Hi. > > Your message gave me a thought. You wrote: > > > I was inclined toward not deprecating the entities, and waiting a little > > bit before considering introducing <mchar>. > > How about a compromise where we don't deprecate entities, but > introduce <mchar> as new in 2.0? Since the functionalities will be duplicated, there is not really great motivation at introducing it at the moment. I will venture to "remember" another suggestion... "Making" a suggestion is harder than just making reservations :-) Fortunately, this time, I am just "remembering"... I remember David once made a suggestion on the mozilla-mathml newsgroup to the effect that <math> should have the special feature that it causes the MathML entities to be auto-registered. If <math> is treated in such a special way defined by the MathML REC, then authors will not have to fiddle with the <!DOCTYPE when pasting a MathML fragment (except, of course, if they use non-standard entity names, or if they want to use a MathML entity before the first occurence of <math>) Is this option still open/valid? --- RBS
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