Martin Rubey wrote:
> Arthur Ralfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> Is this type of output anachronistic? What about fixing up OutputForm and
>> using that as the default text output?
>>
>
> No, OutputForm is (or rather, will be) the domain abstracting output. I
> guess,
> if we get OutputForm to be good enough for content mathml, TeX and ASCII, it
> will be really good enough for most what is to come.
>
> What we need is a domain ASCII, that converts OutputForm to ASCII art. I
> don't
> think that this can be too difficult: you could start with the mathml domain
> and gradually replace mathml markup by ascii art.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
Writing an ASCII domain is different from a mathml or tex package because
we have to do the low level rendering, i.e. to translate output form
(sqrt x) into mathml or TeX I just have to translate it into
<msqrt><mi>x</mi></msqrt> or $\sqrt{x}$
while to translate it into ASCII I have to actually construct the square
root
symbol and position it with respect to the x, which is I think why the
i-output.boot code is so ugly. The TeX program and the mathml renderer
in Firefox take care of that for me.
Arthur
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