I'm probably sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong, but ...

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote:
> Converters latex/openmath and latex/mathml exists (see
> http://www.openmath.org/), but I have been told that their job is
> pretty difficult because of ambiguities when extracting the semantic
> of a formula. Things like: should $\cos xy$ be interpreted as cos(xy)
> or cos(x) * y ...

This is not the slightest bit ambiguous. By TeX rules, this is cos(x) * y;
the other interpretation would require braces around the {xy}. Of course,
I suppose that does assume that the author wrote it correctly in the first
place ...

Mike
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