Wednesday, November 14, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH> At 05:25 PM 11/14/2001 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>I think that the only thing that needs to be done in ConTeXt core >>is the math accent stuff. Everything else should be fine as it is >>in Taco's module, except maybe for some font stuff which should be >>adapted to the new ConTeXt internals. But this is for sure >>something *I* am not able to do (would need to study ConTeXt font >>internals thoroughly, and this is not the right moment). HH> So, to summarize, we have several functions of the module: HH> (1) fonts HH> (2) amslatex compatible commands HH> (3) breaking math HH> Taco and I will handle (1) also because it is related to the new math HH> symbol collections and mathml. Yes, I've seen that most of all is there already (even if I seem to have problems activating it ... how do you call the math symbol collection? How do you call the symbols? Trying \enablecollection[ams] and \symbol[varnothing] or \varnothing fails!). HH> If you can strip out all (2) and (3) specific thinsg (watch out: things HH> like smashing are context core functionality) we can incrementaly replace HH> m-math. Uhm. I think that I will just strip (3) from the current module --never used it, don't know how to handle it. I will try to get something done with (2), but don't expect anything useful too soon --I'm trying to study pretty hard for the next couple of months. HH> I will clean up (2) code anyway (at least check it for things that can go HH> into math-ext instead of a module.) Yes. The problem in (2) is that I will have to understand LaTeX internals and how they are called, together with ConTeXt internals and how to call them, because unless I go the "reimplementation from stratch" way I will have to build some kind of emulation code. Uhm. HH> Btw, spacing issues (like classes of display math) are core functionality HH> already but i may need to extend it., so there will be left overs "to do". I need these. How do I access them? Are they documented? Which ConTeXt module should I study? HH> PS. Maybe entering math in mathml syntax makes more sense; at least it is a HH> better way to control consistency. No way! MathML (like all XML) is overkill and only makes sense if an appropriate user interface (via editor or conversion) is build. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
