Re: mover vs latin chars with diacriticals

How about:

"3.2 Token Elements 
  Token elements in presentation markup are broadly intended to represent the 
smallest units of mathematical notation which carry meaning. Tokens are 
roughly analogous to words in text. However, because of the precise, 
symbolic nature of mathematical notation, the various categories and 
properties of token elements figure prominently in MathML markup. By 
contrast, in textual data, individual words rarely need to be marked up or 
styled specially."

My reading of this is that if your dot means differentiation, you should
use mover.  If x-dot is just some wierd atomic symbol chosen by an
eccentric author you should use the unicode.

Richard

On Friday 28 April 2006 01:18, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> The Unicode blocks Latin Extended A, B, and Additional contain roman
> characters with various diacritical marks.  Eg, U+1E8B is "Latin small
> letter x with dot above" and is equivalent to "x" with the combining
> character U+0307.
 
> I thought the MathML spec said that using <mover> was preferable to using
> these characters, but I didn't find anything.  This issue came up when
> looking at the output of a program -- sometimes it used characters in the
> Latin blocks and sometimes it used <mover>.  Dealing with multiple forms
> increases the complexity of most programs that process the MathML.
 
> If the spec is currently silent on this (maybe I missed where it talked
> about it), do people think that the spec should recommend one form over the
> other?  If so which form?  [In case it is not obvious, I think <mover>
> should be recommended in the spec]
 
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
> ~ Makers of Equation Editor, MathType, MathPlayer and MathFlow ~
> 

Received on Friday, 28 April 2006 10:17:43 UTC