- From: Bobby Thomale <bthomale@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:54:51 -0600
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:46 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote: > >> for completeness, since all of the other variants of greater and not >> greater have corresponding less than and not less than entities >> defined. > > It's clear that this is "missing" in some sense, but we're taking a fairly > hard line in not adding any new names. > > If we add a name and someone uses it then any fragments of mathml using that > that get moved to a document using an older dtd are not well formed and the > xml parser would reject the entire document. > > This is why for example thel doube struck letters only have entities for > upper case not lower case, even though there are now defined unicode code > points for upper and lower case Interesting. Ok, that makes sense. Fixing the entity that's named wrong is the important part anyhow. -- Bobby Thomale Vital Source Technologies http://www.vitalsource.com
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