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Math RSS FeedsMathML3 and MathML for CSS are Proposed Recommendations - The W3C Director approved the publication of the MathML version 3.0 specification and its companion, the MathML for CSS Profile, as Proposed Recommendations. Until September 10, the two documents undergo what should be the final review by the W3C members, before becoming W3C Recommendations. MathML3 was until now a Candidate Recommendation, which means it was being tested in practice. Becoming Proposed Recommendation means the tests were successful. You can see with the test suite (and the test results of a number of current implementations) how well your software supports MathML. ...Feed Source: www.w3.org Mathematical User Interfaces Workshop in Paris on July 10 -
Paul Libbrecht and the
MKM
Conference
are organizing
MathUI10,
the 2010 Workshop on Mathematical User
Interfaces. The workshop offers a forum discussing how users can
interact with the mathematical objects represented on a
computer, how they can manipulate them to feel their
mathematical nature, how they can create them, how they can
visualize them, and how they can understand them. The deadline
for submissions is May 20.
... ?XML Entity Definitions for Characters? is a W3C Recommendation -
As expected, the
specification
XML Entity Definitions for Characters
has
become a W3C Recommendation. The W3C members expressed support
for the specification and had no further requests for changes.
Design Science welcomes the
XML Entity Definitions
for Characters
Recommendation. The nature of
mathematical notation and its many symbols inevitably leads to
the need for good character names. As a leading vendor of
scientific communication software, we are keenly aware of the
errors and confusions that have long been the result of
multiple conflicting sets of names in different contexts. By
providing a single, authoritative source of character names
? consolidating more than a decade of painstaking work
? this specification makes a significant contribution,
and we look forward to implementing it in our pr... ?XML Entity Definitions for Characters? submitted for final review -
The
specification
XML Entity Definitions for Characters
has
advanced to the status of Proposed Recommendation, the final
step before becoming a standard. It contains names for many
mathematical and other symbols, all from
the
Unicode
standard, and thus allows those symbols to be
written into XML documents in environments where typing them
directly would be difficult or impossible. The specification is
used by several types of documents, such as HTML5, DocBook, and,
of course, MathML. W3C members have until March 11, 2010, to
review the document. The specification should become a W3C
Recommendation three or four weeks later.
... MathML3 and the MathML for CSS profile are Candidate Recommendations -
The W3C Director today advanced the status
of
MathML3
from
Working Draft to Candidate Recommendation (CR). That means that
W3C is now asking people to not only send comments on the text,
but to implement the specification and send feedback on any
problems found in actual use.
The
MathML for
CSS profile,
which describes a subset of MathML3 that can be
rendered with existing CSS renderers, was advanced to CR at the
same time. The next step for both specifications
is
PR,
as soon as
there are sufficiently many implementations. The working group
expects to start testing implementations around March 2010.
Feedback can be sent to the
mailing list.
... Last Call and Working Draft of MathML 3.0 -
The Math Working Group published a new
draft of the MathML 3.0
specification,
which is intended to be the last one before
the specification becomes a Candidate Recommendation, around the
end of the year. That means this is the
last call
for
comments. Please, send comments to
.
The
deadline is November 11. See the
status
section
and
appendix F
for an overview of the major changes.
... New drafts of MathML 3.0 and the MathML for CSS profile -
The Math Working Group published new drafts of two
specifications,
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0
and
A
MathML for CSS profile.
The new draft of MathML 3.0
especially affects chapter 4, on content mark-up, but there
are smaller improvements throughout the document. The new draft
profile adds some elementary math (e.g., long division) and
includes sample CSS rules for displaying elementary math
formulas. See the drafts for the details and for how to give
feedback.
... New draft of MathML 3.0 -
The Math Working Group published the fourth draft
of
MathML version 3.
Some more of the
non-normative text has been removed
in favor of a separate Primer. The presentation mark-up now
allows the author to insert rendering hints in case the renderer
has to insert extra line breaks. But most of the editorial
effort has gone into defining the underlying semantics of
content mark-up (chapter 4): it is now almost completely
expressed in terms of OpenMath Content Dictionaries. That should
not affect authors, but it enables software to convert between
different math systems. Chapter 8 will eventually describe the
structure of those Content Dictionaries.
Comments on the
draft are very welcome
on the group's (
archived
)
public mailing list,
... W3C extends Math Working Group for 18 months -
The
charter
of the Math Working Group expired earlier this year,
and, after a few months' extension to determine the contents of
the next charter, W3C decided to renew the charter until April
2010 without any changes to the work items. The updated schedule
puts a Candidate Recommendation
for
MathML 3.0
at the end
of 2008 and the group currently expects it can finish all its
work, including all test suites, in early 2010.
W3C Members
can use a
form
to join the Working
Group.
... New draft of ?XML Entity definitions for Characters? -
The Math Working Group published a new
version of the draft
XML Entity
definitions for Characters.
The specification defines names
for many Unicode symbols. The names can be used in MathML if the
use of the symbols themselves is inconvenient or impossible. The
list of names is a superset of the list defined by HTML. The
specification includes DTDs to include the names in other
XML-based formats and also XSLT2 scripts to convert symbols to
names.
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