Re: [Aimmath-developers] towards a beta release

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Gustav W Delius wrote:
> There are still a number of bugs in the system. I have started reporting
> some new ones to the bug tracker at
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=44411&atid=439479. Please all help
> in finding and squashing bugs.

Dear Gustav,

I think you will find the problem with a> a where a is a vector will
go away if you enclose the a with an eval(), i.e. a> eval(a)
I'll check that myself a little later on. If that is the case, I'm
not sure whether you could call this a bug ... it's a pest sometimes
to have to remember to do this, but would an eval in the display
routine fix it ... I'm not sure that it would.

> There is actually still one important unresolved issue: the -u flag for tth.
> It doesn't matter to us here at York because we will convert the latex to
> mathml within Moodle. But AiM users who do not want to use Moodle might
> really appreciate being able to set the -u flag. Without it AiM is not
> really useable with Netscape. I know that several of you have already put a
> lot of thought into it. Is the problem close to a resolution?

The issue is whether you can set the -u flag or not dynamically dependent
on the browser. (One can hard-set it to -u with no problem at all, if
one knows all users use Netscape 6+, or can use Netscape 6+ ... basically, 
the problem is to accommodate the Internet Explorer users at the same 
time.) That said, I think a very minor tweak of my attempt at dynamically 
detecting the browser and setting the -u flag in case of Netscape/Mozilla 
is all that's needed ... I just haven't had the time to figure out why it 
doesn't work. OTOH, others have suggested that there's a simpler approach.
It should be very easy. 

  Regards,
  Greg