Math in Office

MathML mfenced element deprecated on web

October 25, 2020 Oct 25, 2020 10/25/20

Murray Sargent

The MathML working group is planning to deprecate the <mfenced> element as well as the <mo> fence and separator attributes for use on the web. The justification is to simplify web implementations by deprecating MathML features that are redundant. This post explains how <mfenced> and the fence and separator attributes can be ...

How I got into technical word processing

October 18, 2020 Oct 18, 2020 10/18/20

Murray Sargent

This post is an update of an early post that doesn't appear to be archived. It tells a bit of how I started in technical word processing back in the middle of the last century. More precisely it was in 1965 that I started using a nifty (for that time) vector plotting program by Grey Freeman at the Yale Computer Center. I was a Yale grad ...

Unicode Math Calligraphic Alphabets

October 1, 2020 Oct 1, 2020 10/1/20

Murray Sargent

The Unicode Standard needs to encode regular and bold math calligraphic/chancery alphabets as well as regular and bold and fancy-script/roundhand alphabets, since chancery and roundhand alphabets are used contrastively by some authors and [La]TeX can support both kinds of letters. In most documents, chancery and roundhand styles can be ...