On 5/6/2013 6:27 AM, Benoit Jacob wrote:
I guess I don't see the usefulness of allowing to apply style to individual
parts of an equation --- applying a single style to an entire equation
would be plenty enough as far as I can see.
Suppose you were writing an introductory explanation course, where you
were explaining the derivation of a complex formula step-by-step. You
could illustrate the changes in each step with a different color. You
could also use strike through text formatting to clearly indicate.
Regarding editing, if I understand correctly, you have WYSIWYG or other
kinds of fancy editing in mind, where understanding of the syntax tree
inside of the equation is needed; I haven't seen a need for WYSIWYG editing
of math, but I don't want to try to fight the war "for or against WYSIWYG".
I would wager that the majority of HTML content in the wild is not
written by people who write HTML in a text editor but by people who use
some sort of WYSIWYG tool or document format conversion--I'm including
subsets like email and E-PUB here. Also, this strikes me as very biased
towards the frame of mind that "real mathematicians use TeX"--I was
introduced to the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office more or less as
part of the regular course of study, long before I was introduced to TeX
in any form.
--
Joshua Cranmer
Thunderbird and DXR developer
Source code archæologist
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