Re: [Aimmath-developers] my personal branch in the repository?

[Jon B. <jbr...@wo...>]

Greg,

I think this is a great idea. I had the same issue as you with unicode 
output. My students were very confused and it created a minor headache. 
This is not what I wanted them to experience in the pilot.

Any idea as to when MathML will be a viable possibility?
>
>  1) Browser detection
>     . if Mozilla/Netscape 6+ detected tth should use -u switch
>     . if Internet Explorer detected no change, except that if IE 5
>       is detected it should warn the user (student) that it is buggy
>       and that multiple levels of indices are rendered wrongly
>       e^(x^2) is rendered as e^(x*2)
>     . other browsers warn that symbol font may not be rendered 
> correctly,
>       or else if we know they are unicode-capable use -u switch
>     I have something modelled on the idea Manolis suggested a few weeks
>     ago when I said there was a snag with using unicode with IE.
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Jon Breitenbucher
The College of Wooster
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