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Date: | Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:15:37 +0000 |
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William F. Hammond writes:
> (But nobody plans to author directly in MathML.)
depends what you mean by `author in MathML'. is Amaya `authoring in
MathML'? seems like it to me
> Amen. Of course, you write not only the software that processes <foo>
> but also a dtd (document type definition) that serves in some sense as
> an outline for the software logic.
if you want, yes. recommended, but not mandatory
> done by processors. Before any serious processing is done your macros
> need to be fully expanded. (We don't see that expansion with our eyes
> when using TeX-based systems.)
and lord, how much heartache that blindness has caused us all over the
years...
> presentation format. And one might want to think very carefully about
> exactly when, along the road, "\alpha" (oops, in xml I mean
> "<alpha/>") should be resolved to unicode (which is what happens if I
> write "α".
no, sorry, untrue. α is resolved to whatever your DTD resolves
it to. it can resolve to <alpha/> if you want. or <b>alpha</b>. well,
entity expansion has some problems, so in fact <alpha/> is more
flexible, but lets not claim that there are any hard-wired mappings
for α
sebastian
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