> Inside mathed it's more or less LaTeX. You have the same ambiguity.
> LyX makes no effort to guess the semantics of your formula.
Ok.
> I think it should be possible to create a 'invisible' '*' i.e. a
> character that translates to nothing when output to LaTeX and to '*'
> when converted to Mu
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 th
> Mathed basically reads and writes LaTeX quite well and this won't
> change even if internal structures are changed. So in order to protect
> you from the messy internals I'd suggest to take LaTeX as a starting
> point. So the problem boils down to a 'part of LaTeX to MathML'
> converter. If yo
> Well, I guess all that would be really needed is two functions for
> converting back and forth between the contents of a mathed and
> openmath/mathml/?. How difficult would this be ?
Mathed basically reads and writes LaTeX quite well and this won't
change even if internal structures are changed
> Well I don't think that Hard-Core LyX Developers ;) would oppose if
> you could reimplement Mathed in a clean way (it is messy and with
> lots of hacks) I just don't know what Alejandro the former writer of
> Mathed is doing, last time I heard from him he was very busy, but he
> also told us tha
>
> In my opinion any step in this direction would mean a complete rewrite
> of the math inset. Anything short of that probably means wasting a lot
> of time with ugly hacks and workarounds. But that's just my opinion and
> know that a few people disagree...
Well I don't think that Hard-Core LyX
