Subject: Re: support for 'macro' formatting languages From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:06:12 GMT |
> As you point out the problem i mentioned may not be a problem > for TeX at all. But TeX is very sophisticated. No, I meant the opposite. When it comes to handling large formulae TeX is not sophisticated at all. It doesn't even try to do anything. If you give it a few MB of displayed mathematics, it will happily put it all on one line, and then inform you that you have an overfull hbox. The solution to getting rendering in different formats is to put the information in the source (X|SG)ML that is exactly the information that you said is not there: Structually mark subterms so that a renderer can make intelligent line breaking decisions based on the expression structure. It is this kind of structural markup that is explicitly encouraged in mathml. If you have ever taken a paper with large formulae broken by hand and aligned using (say) the AMS LaTeX packages for mathematics, and then tried to set that material to a different page width you'll know that the TeX model is something you _don't_ want to copy as author syntax for documents that are going to be used for multiple purposes. David DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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