2013/5/6 Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <pidgeo...@gmail.com> > On 5/6/2013 2:12 PM, Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> How many specific domains will want to have their own domain-specific >> markup language next? Chemistry? Biology? Electronics? Music? Flow charts? >> Calligraphy? >> > > MathML specifies mathematical formulae, which is not domain-specific, and > is itself a building block for other fields as well. Looking at the other > fields: > Chemical formulas of course can use MathML, and drawing chemical > structures is best built on SVG. Note that even practitioners in the field > are used to basically building these structures with tools like ChemDraw, > which can be thought of as a specialized SVG tool. > I don't know what biology can specify, but I don't think there's much that > they couldn't solve without basic 2D and 3D graphics. > Electronics' circuit diagrams are easily just a set of macros on top of > SVG, as are music and flow charts. >
Of course not; just like math, music will want a higher level of abstraction that's not directly tied to graphical rendering, like a set of SVG macros would be. In fact, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML And in fact... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_markup_languages Benoit > > I haven't read the source code of MathJAX, but the fact that it isn't a > straight TeX-to-HTML one-pass converter is to me a good sign that MathML > expresses stuff that is not reliably expressible in HTML. > > > I suspect that when people start asking for that, we'll quickly have to >> start saying "no", and at that point, the exception made for math will >> seem >> unjustified. >> > > If no one's asking for the other things, then it's not an issue. > > > -- > Joshua Cranmer > Thunderbird and DXR developer > Source code archæologist > > ______________________________**_________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
