On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:16:59PM +0200, Jens Frank wrote:
regarding "%": I think we don't need TeX-comments in our formulas. We
could
just replace % by \percent{} before passing the input over to TeX.
There are probably other symbols that are also a problem, and I'm not so
sure whether we really don't need %. For complex stuff such as for example
commuting diagrams it would probably nice for the future editor to have some
comments that explain what is going on. Moreover, it would also mean an
(admittedly small) incompatability with
planetmath.org.
regarding "simple style vs. complex
formulas": I changed the parser of my
proof-of-concept-code to first check whether the formula is "simple", that
is only contains: digits, letters (small+capital), +-*/=(), ^, _, {}
and blanks. If this is the case, the formula will be set as HTML using
<sub> and <sup>.
Interesting. I'f I'm honest I have to admit that it looks a bit odd that one
formula a^2 + b^2 = c^2 looks different from c^2 = a^2 + b^a - 2ab
cos(\gamma). Perhaps we should only do this for the in-line formula.
Before implementing this I wanted to wait for
Lee's proposal for the future
Wiki Markup Language.
Yes, agreed, and I'm very curious what it will be. :-)
-- Jan Hidders