Re: Displaystyle and mtable

Fair enough :-)

Peter.
Am 18.09.2014 23:33 schrieb "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>:

> On 18/09/2014 22:09, Peter Krautzberger wrote:
>
>> Thanks, David, for confirming the reading of the spec.
>>
>> So to guarantee \displaystyle we're supposed to do something like
>>
>> <mstyle scriptlevel="0">
>> <mtable displaystyle="true">
>> ...
>> </mtable>
>> </mstyle>
>> To guarantee \textstyle something like
>>
>> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0">
>> <mtable>
>> ...
>> </mtable>
>> </mstyle>
>>
>
> well if an author is coding directly in mathml probably wouldn't have the
> mstyle.
> If you're converting from TeX code (that is not using \mathchoice) then
> you would need that for absolute fidelity, although to be honest often
> if tex alignments end up being used in a subscript the author _doesn't
> want the table to stay using large fonts, and ammends the code to use
> mathchoice so it gets smaller.
>
>
>
>
>> And
>>
>> <mfrac>
>> <mtable displaystyle="true">
>> ...
>> </mtable>
>> <mrow>
>> ...
>> </mrow>
>> </mfrac>
>>
>> would get us a table with displaystyle formatting, but in scriptstyle
>> size (when used in an inline formula). (I admit I find that somewhat
>> strange; oh well.)
>>
>
> again, if tex did this you probably wouldn't find it strange:-)
>
>>
>> Thanks again for your quick response!
>> Peter.
>>
>
>
> From the speed you may note that it was a personal response, but I think I
> only cited what the spec is saying:-)
>
> David
>
>