(Fwd) Re: WebMath: Fwd: Math on the Web: A Status Report

[Paul Topping]

Hi,

In our upcoming MathPlayer plugin for MSIE, we have gone to some lengths to
try to avoid the line spacing problem discussed here. It would be hard for
me to say whether the fraction example would or would not mess up line
spacing because it can depend on point sizes, font choices, etc. But we are
aware of the problem and have taken steps to avoid it.

I think I pointed out how well MathPlayer did in this regard in my demo at
last year's MathML Conference, but I'm not sure if anyone understood my
point ;-).

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Libbrecht [mailto:
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:46 AM
> To: webmath at camel.math.ca
> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: WebMath: Fwd: Math on the Web: A Status Report
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Turns out the test fails on my MSIE 5.0.1 MacOSX and OmniWeb 
> 4.0 (I know 
> this not very comprehensive): even on the home page, THT's 
> first line is 
> too "deep" and makes it irregular, that's precisely the deep trouble.
> 
> The strategy to use <sup> and <sub>, <table> and Unicode 
> symbols with, 
> possibly a few Symbol font's characters (as I understand ThT 
> does it) is 
> actually precisely what we use in ActiveMath (see 
> http://www.activemath.org) and we are not too happy of it. In 
> particular 
> roots are rather poorly rendered.
> 
> Please note that I do not expect any kind of MathML plugin (even the 
> "behaviour" of Design Science) to succeed here. I may be 
> wrong and would 
> love to hear it (CSS might be the trick)...
> 
> Thanks for the link it contains interesting surveys.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 05:01 PM, Pam Bishop wrote:
> 
> > how about TtH?
> > http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/
> >
> > ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> >
> > Dear WebMathers,
> >
> > Not having a MathML browser around yet, I'd like to ask the 
> following 
> > question which doesn't seem to have an obvious answer: do 
> you know of 
> > any system that displays mathematics that would be able to 
> display a 
> > line of text with a formula like, in TeX, {a \over b} or 
> a^2 without 
> > changing a normal view line-height ?? TeX can but it is not on the 
> > web, as we know.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Paul
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