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

Le dimanche 18 septembre 2005 à 17:59 +1000,
msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au a écrit :
> > 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.

It will also be needed for components. IMHO, we need some way to delete
the embedded object on the fly.

Cheers,
Jean
Received on Sun Sep 18 10:23:39 2005