Re: Bidi and interpretation of lspace/rspace

The direction is inherited from the closest enclosing mrow or mstyle that
sets 'dir', or from the math element, or from the surrounding environment
(in that order).   In your example, that context is always LTR for the msub
elements.

Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
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2011/12/9 Frédéric WANG <fred.wang@free.fr>

>  Hello,
>
> Just to be sure, is it correct to say that lspace/rspace interpretation
> (as leading or trailing spaces) is not made in the context of the element
> where the attributes lspace/rspace are located but in the context of the
> element around which the spaces are rendered? For example, I think that in
> these three examples, we consider the directionality of <msub/> (LTR) and
> so lspace and rspace are always interpreted as leading and trailing spaces
> respectively:
>
> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"<http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML>
> >
>   <mtext>_</mtext>
>   <msub>
>     <mo lspace="1em" rspace="2em">+</mo>
>     <mi>E</mi>
>   </msub>
>   <mtext>_</mtext>
> </math>
>
> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"<http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML>
> >
>   <mtext>_</mtext>
>   <msub>
>     <mrow dir="rtl"><mo lspace="1em" rspace="2em">+</mo></mrow>
>     <mi>E</mi>
>   </msub>
>   <mtext>_</mtext>
> </math>
>
> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"<http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML>
> >
>   <mrow dir="rtl">
>     <mstyle lspace="1em" rspace="2em">
>       <mrow dir="ltr">
>         <mtext>_</mtext>
>         <msub>
>           <mo>+</mo>
>           <mi>E</mi>
>         </msub>
>         <mtext>_</mtext>
>       </mrow>
>     </mstyle>
>   </mrow>
> </math>
>
> --
> Frédéric Wang.
> Website <http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/> - Weblog<http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic/>
>