From: Luca Padovani (lpadovan@cs.unibo.it)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 15:17:10 EST
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 19:15, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> Though, I hope equations will be integrated at text level instead of as
> a component. This is what is done in LyX, and it does make a difference
> if you write physics reports etc.
I'm not familiar with LyX so I'm not sure what you mean with
"integration at text level". What I guess is that you wish equation
editing to be smoothly integrated with the surrounding text/paragraphs
to the point that the user doesn't actually realize math is handled by a
separate component. If my guess is correct well, it is exactly what I'd
aim at, although I still have some hope that with a proper interface the
component can be kept reasonably separated from the main application,
without merging all together in one single blob (see mozilla's layout
engine).
My point of view is that this kind of fine-grained integration is
interesting "per se", especially because I see very few examples of this
turned into practice (then the question is, is it really doable? ;-) ).
It is also a very reasonable modularization effort: MathML today, SVG
tomorrow, another kind of object the next month and the application will
grow in size and complexity (again see mozilla) with the disadvantages
we all know.
-- Luca
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