At 12:18 +0000 1998/12/02, David Carlisle wrote:
>> The wording "public domain" is not a legal one, and is not even a well
>> defined term.
>I think you will find that it is defined in some jurisdictions, but that
>is by the way.

Doubt it.

>> But it's clear that no *ML can currently do the job of math typesetting in
>> either paper or WWW media.
>
>That is not clear at all. We are dicussing (mainly) author markup. Once
>can clearly get tex quality (not least, by using tex) out of a document
>that is marked up in XML. It is true, that especially for mathematics,
>there is not (yet?) a realistic authoring environment that produces
>mathematics marked up to an XML dtd. That is a big problem, but it is a
>separate problem.

Well, if the system does currently not exist, currently it can't do the job.

Otherwise, in the context of math authoring, it is clear that merely author
markup will be too cumbersome.

The *ML is a nice movement though; I wonder what will come next: Perhaps a
language also suitable for authoring.


  Hans Aberg
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