From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (kenneth@gnu.org)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 16:10:44 EST
The way you describe it, it sounds like you want the math render as some
kind of plug-in, that just will render the parts of the document
containing MathML. And that way have math at text level, instead of
inserting math objects like you do in MS Word.
Am I understanding you right? I hope so, because that would be nice.
--Kenneth
man, 2003-01-13 kl. 21:58 skrev Luca Padovani:
> Hi Kenneth,
>
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:27, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> > I guess you have to try it out in order to understand what I mean. But
> > there is no component, so you cannot move it around by mistake, or as
> > was it a picture. Instead you can copy part of the math, as was it text.
> > You can also copy math and text at the same time. Actually it just works
> > as math as was it text.
>
> sure, I'd like it to be as you described it, I was just running a bit
> ahead. The point of view we are taking in a different project is that
> the markup is what really matters. The interface just gives you a way of
> looking at the markup, and possibly interacting with it. So when you
> have math embedded in your document, the markup is actually embedded and
> the component just renders it. When you select, you select the markup
> and if you copy the markup elsewhere a different instance of the
> component takes care of that.
>
> Note however that selection in text and selection in math can be quite
> different. We found surprisingly important the possibility enabled by
> MathML of selecting parts of the formula according to its structure,
> which is something one doesn't usually care about in plain text for text
> is "plain" by definition.
>
> Maybe it is a bit early for this kind of discussions, but eventually I'd
> be really happy to have some brainstorming sessions with you (abiword
> developers) and to converge into an effective collaboration.
>
> Cheers,
> -- luca
>
-- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
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