Hello dear list,
I had a funny demo yesterday in my lecture.
I had input the following in Word: P(T<-t∨T>t)=0.05:
However, a colleague that watched indicated I should rather split the
probability measures in two which I started:
Splitting the formula by using cut and paste was not possible anymore,
because an automatic box (an `mrow` I assume) had appeared inside the
first bracket. Only partial cut and paste was possible.
So it was easier to re-input the whole or abandon the change; I chose
the second ;-). Word has influenced my mathematical discourse!.
A few discussions around intents seem to imply that these boxes are a
natural requirement which is understandable from the perspective of a
navigation through the formula or read-aloud or a selection-aware
presentation_. I would like to agree with that but this implies that
some boxes will bother the mathematical discourse.
I believe that similar issues are met in other environments (in
particular TeXmacs has very deep box-nesting.
- Should users expect “box manipulations” so that the boxes become
correct?
- Should they be told to care?
- Are there situations where boxes would overlap?
paul
