- From: Luca Padovani <lpadovan@cs.unibo.it>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:56:44 +0200
- To: paul@activemath.org
- Cc: Public MathML mailing list <www-math@w3.org>
Hello Paul, On 27/mar/06, at 16:19, Paul Libbrecht wrote: > I am unclear about a clean definition of mathematical selection. > The best I could find thus far would be to select "sub-terms" only > which, I believe, correspond to subtrees in a MathML-content or > OpenMath matching tree. Comments welcome there. of course one can make his life more complicated. Just think of a matrix. There are basically three ways of encoding it in a content- oriented markup: row-major, column-major, or flat encodings. Whichever encoding you choose, there are always "sub-terms" such as a row, a column, etc. that make sense mathematically and yet that don't correspond to a subterm of the markup. > A level 2 approach would be to work with parallel markup and > enlarge any text selection to the presentation match of the > smallest content-sub-tree containing the content-match of the > smallest presentation sub-tree containing the selected text (!). if you can rely on the assumption that the structure of presentation markup is always a refinment of content markup, then annotating presentation markup with attributes is sufficient without using parallel markup (of course the attributes should mean something, and this is usually application specific). Regards, --luca
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