- From: Christoph Lange <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:12:17 +0100
- To: "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: www-math@w3.org, c.mueller@jacobs-university.de
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:28 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote: >> Where do these default renderings come from? > > So the answer to the question in the case of mathml2 is that the choice > of notation is at the editorial discretion of whoever was editing the > file at the time, in consultation with the working group members (at > that time). > > … the notation given is probably, in the mind of a > probable editor, the most commonly used notation in the country in which > the probable editor was probably educated. Thanks, David, that answers my question. Actually, I intended to ask about this process of agreement, not about the technical generation of the renderings. Has there ever been a debate on a particular rendering, e.g. that editor A suggested one rendering that editor B didn't like? > Which is why the spec has alwys been explict that these are essentially > only suggested defaults and that a system may (and systems do) use > notations. Sure -- but given the importance of MathML, your "suggestions" do have a high impact. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, ICQ# 51191833
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