- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:32:51 +0100
- To: ian@hixie.ch
- Cc: bruce.miller@nist.gov, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
> Nobody includes the equivalent of content MathML when writing their papers > using LaTeX. Why would they do so with HTML? The premise there is simply false. Many people do, (La)TeX isn't so much a markup language as a mechanism for defining markup languages, together with a built in typesetting engine. People commonly define new commands for operators with different mathematical meaning but te same visual rendering. This is why any decent (La)TeX to MathML translator has to trap the author defined macros and supply direct translations to mathml rather than simply allow them all to expand to primitive TeX notions. In teh end they will all expand to explict typesetting instructions, but then teh semantic is lost (unless you use the human eye and a lot of context to read the rendered expression and put it back.) David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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