Re: How do you divide?

I would recommend putting the mark on a row by itself since it appears to be
much wider than a column.  You could put it in an mtext (and use mglyph or a
char) so that it overflows the column boundary.

Neil Soiffer
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:00 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> >  In order to highlight the residue, we usually wrap it with some kind
> >  of mark. See attached file. Is that feasible in MathML?
>
> You can use an menclose (I just tried it putting a circle round the
> final 1, which worked fine).  But menclose doesn't, by default, have the
> kind of diagonal line-half-circle-line annoation that you showed. But
> if one of the standard menclose annotations is OK, or you are targetting
> a specific renderer with an extended set, it should be feasible, yes.
> Currently (I think) you'd have to just put the annotation on the final
> digit, otherwise you will lose the column alignment, but so long as the
> notation you choose is "mainly" to the right, perhaps this will be not
> too bad a restriction?
>
> the menclose notations can be one or more of:
>
> ("longdiv" | "actuarial" | "radical" | "box" | "roundedbox" | "circle" |
> "left" | "right" | "top" | "bottom" | "updiagonalstrike" |
> "downdiagonalstrike" | "verticalstrike" | "horizontalstrike" |
> "madruwb") +
>
> If it is too much of a restriction then you always have the fallback of
> using an  image included by mglyph with the mark and adjust its
> position with mpadded ie essentially consider this final mark as
> artwork to be "manually tweaked" into the right place relative to the
> calculation.
>
>
> David
>
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