RE: MathML Incompatibility from Bernhard Keil on 2005-05-13 (www-math@w3.org from May 2005)

From: Bernhard Keil <Bernhard.Keil@soft4science.com>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:03:53 +0200
To: <www-math@w3.org>
Message-ID: <E1DWZox-0003DM-AT@maggie.w3.org>

Hello Jyrki,
Currently SciWriter supports named entities, like "&InvisibleTimes;"
and numeric character entities if these are encoded in the hexadecimal 
notation, like "&#x02061;"

Obviously, looking at your few cases...

Name               Hexadecimal  Decimal
--------------------------------------------------------------
af                      &#x02061;    &#8289; 
InvisibleTimes    &#x02062;     &#8290;
DifferentialD       &#x02146;     &#8518;  
ExponentialE     &#x02147;     &#8519; 
    
... Mathematica encodes some character entities with 
the decimal notation.

I was not aware that there exist applications using
the decimal notation, so thanks for this hint.

It is a little effort to implement support for the decimal
notation. It will be present in a future releases of SciWriter.

Regards,
Bernhard Keil
 
mailto:Bernhard.Keil@soft4science.com
www.soft4science.com


-----Original Message-----
From: www-math-request@w3.org [mailto:www-math-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jyrki Kajala
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:19 PM
To: wendellp@operamail.com; www-math@w3.org
Subject: MathML Incompatibility


The MathML recommendations are too advanced for most tools and the
implementations don't support all features. I have moved formulas from
Mathematica to SciWriter but had to modify the code that the
MathMLForm-function of Mathematica generated. MathMLForm generates some
entities that SciWriter doesn't understand. If you use the
sciWriterForm-function given below you can fix some of the
incompabilities

<pre>
sciWriterForm[x_] :=
  StandardForm[
    StringReplace[
      ToString[
        MathMLForm[x]
      ],
      {
        "<mo>&#8289;</mo>" -> "",
        "&#8290;" -> "&InvisibleTimes;",
        "&#8518;" -> "d",
        "&#8519;" -> "e"
        }
    ]
  ]
</pre>

--Jyrki

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