Re: Reservations about <mchar> from David Carlisle on 2000-05-03 (www-math@w3.org from May 2000)

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 00:12:45 +0100 (BST)
To: rbs@maths.uq.edu.au
CC: www-math@w3.org
Message-Id: <200005032312.AAA17686@nag.co.uk>

>  Is (X)HTML going to
>  deprecate &alpha; &beta; etc...

I don't know (I'll ask them:-) but they are going to have to decide
fairly soon as all W3C groups are thinking about producing xml schema
descriptions of their respective languages, now the schema spec is
stabilising. 

For XHTML it is probably easier to junk the entities than for mathml.
If for example you are making a lot of use of latin1 characters, you
probably have your editing environment set up for latin 1 and so
typing e acute character is probably a lot easier than entering
&eacute;.

MathML is unique (amongst W3C languages) in having rather a lot of
entities and most of them referring to characters that are not in a
typical windows/mac/x11 font set and not likely to be appearing in
a typical keyboard layout.


David

Received on Wednesday, 3 May 2000 19:15:20 UTC