Question about relation displaystyle and display

Hello,

I have a question about relation between displaystyle attribute
of mstyle and display attribute of math element.

There is a disctiption in 3.3.4.2 as follows:
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For an instance of MathML embedded in a textual data format 
(such as HTML) in "display" mode, i.e. in place of a paragraph, 
displaystyle = "true" and scriptlevel = "0" for the outermost 
expression of the embedded MathML; if the MathML is embedded 
in "inline" mode, i.e. in place of a character, displaystyle = "false" 
and scriptlevel = "0" for the outermost expression. 

See Chapter 7 The MathML Interface for further discussion of 
the distinction between "display" and "inline" embedding of 
MathML and how this can be specified in particular instances. 
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There is also a discription about display in 7.1.2 as follows:
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display 
The display attribute replaces the deprecated mode attribute. 
It specifies whether the enclosed MathML expression should be 
rendered in a display style or an in-line style. Allowed values 
are "block" and "inline" (default). 
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Though there is no discription about relation between values 
of display and displaystyle, it seems to me that these
two paragraphs imply that display="block" should set 
displaystyle="true", and display="inline" should set 
displaystyle="false".

Is this interpretation correct ?

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Received on Monday, 1 November 2004 13:01:34 UTC