[l2h] Inline math cropping

Ross Moore ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Thu Mar 4 08:57:55 CET 2004


Hello Jean-Pierre


On 04/03/2004, at 6:35 PM, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:

>>> Here's the bugzilla entry.
>>>      http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192077
>>> The status there is not yet 'fixed'.
>>>
>>> It is acknowledged there that the strategy (as used by LaTeX2HTML)
>>> is correct according to the HTML 4.0 (and earlier) recommendations.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>
> I've parsed the comments on the bug, and I'm suprised that it needs
> such a discussion to convince developers that compatibility should
> be preserved (i.e. what was correct with Netscape 3 should work alike 
> with
> Mozilla 1.5).

Agreed; 100%

> I have some documents with math which have been translated long ago
> (and which are not in the top 100 sites, alas).
> Should I understand from this discussion that I should re-translate
> or filter these documents once the bug is fixed ?
> I thought (and claimed frequently to encourage use of HTML
> as a text formatter) that HTML solved long term portability
> of documents. The discussion is a bit disappointing from this
> point of view.
>
> Besides, I don't find the css workaround very satisfactory.
> What about people desactivating css in their browser ?
> IMHO, HTML *should* give a readable result with the *simplest*
> browser configuration. Having inline images nor properly aligned
> is simply *not* readable, thus not publishable.
>
> Should I insist by adding a new comment to the bug ? I strongly
> support comment 17.

Go for it!
It would be good for others to do so too.


Cheers

	Ross


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