Re: AbiWord needs CVS HEAD GtkMathView for a little bit.

> On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 13:04 +1000, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>> The fixes include the ability to correctly display partial derivatives,
>> vector variables and stretched definate integrals. We're still a long
>> way
>> short of Latex quality Maths but we're significantly better than where
>> we
>> were.
>
> There's another important bug that I'd like to fix in the plugin code.
> Right now, if one tries to load a mathml file and this fails (the file
> doesn't exist, the file is not well-formed xml, ...) abiword crashes.
>
> Detecting that something went wrong is easy because the loadBuffer
> method returns false in GR_MathManager::_loadMathML
> (AbiMathView.cpp:675). The returned value is currently ignored. I don't
> know if in this part of the code it is too late to abort the embedding.
> If it is, we can just force the loading of a minimal MathML buffer
> indicating that an error has occurred. Suggestions?
>

I'll see if I can find a solution. I should be able to hack something
together.

Cheers

Martin

> Cheers,
> --luca
>
Received on Sun Sep 18 10:00:22 2005