RE: Entity &epsi; // Small Greek letter epsilon in MathML 2.0 from Bernhard Keil on 2004-01-16 (www-math@w3.org from January 2004)

From: Bernhard Keil <Bernhard.Keil@soft4science.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:34:37 +0100
To: "'Robert Miner'" <RobertM@dessci.com>
Cc: <www-math@w3.org>
Message-Id: <20040116233247.06637133EA@dr-nick.w3.org>

Robert,
>There used to be a problem with the various names for epsilon in 
>the spec, and I believe it was only corrected when MathML 2.0 Second Edition came out.
  according to the entity &epsi;  MathML 2.0 Second Edition and first edition are identical.

>We have fixed this in MathPlayer 2.0, which is nearing the end of beta testing and should be released in a few weeks.
 Since epsilon is a very frequently used symbol I could not realy belief that what I saw ;-)

Bernhard

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Subject: Re: Entity &epsi; // Small Greek letter epsilon in MathML 2.0




Bernhard,

> May be I see something wrong, but as far as I read the entity list in 
> the MathML 2.0 Specification the small greek letter "epsilon" has the 
> entity name "&epsi;"
> while the entity name "&epsilon;" is not part of the MathML 2.0 spec.
> 
> If this is the case than there is a bug in MathPlayer, because 
> MathPlayer 1.1 does not know "&epsi;" it displays a red question mark 
> for any occurance of "&epsi;".  Instead it interprets the entity 
> "&epsilon;" but this is not part of the MathML specification.

There used to be a problem with the various names for epsilon in the spec, and I believe it was only corrected when MathML 2.0
Second Edition came out.

But you are correct that MathPlayer 1.1 is out of sync, and doesn't properly recognize &epsi;.  We have fixed this in MathPlayer
2.0, which is nearing the end of beta testing and should be released in a few weeks.

--Robert

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