# line breaks, embellished operators and space-like content

From: Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:46:24 +0200
Message-ID: <CABqxo821herkQ=hhW_M5aVpnM4HzJ9G_Jkgv8bFRVXxgqNJiXQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
Hi www-math,

On the MathJax issue tracker
revolving around embellished operators and line breaks.

The example from a user was

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mtext>A</mtext>
<mo>+</mo>
<mtext>B</mtext>
<mspace linebreak="newline" />
<mtext>C</mtext>
[/itex]

which won't have a line break in MathJax rendering because the spec seems
to say it's one big embellished operator.

My question is: shouldn't a pure linebreak end the scope of an embellished

Personally, I find it odd that mtext is considered space-like.

It does not seem to meet the criteria of the spec ("typically render as
whitespace", "do not affect the mathematical meaning" -- neither is typical
for mtext). It seems even more problematic in an HTML5 context, where mtext
is one entry point for HTML mixing.

Best regards,
Peter.

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