Add menclose to MathML core

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Add menclose to MathML core #216

Open fred-wang opened 4 years ago

fred-wang commented 4 years ago

Opening a new issue to track needed work for menclose ( PR of the original text: https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml-core/pull/24 ).

Known issues:

Simplify: https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/105
menclose does not specify in which order the notations are painted ( https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/113 )
need OpenType MATH values if a dedicated algorithm is provided ( https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/97 )

Instead of a dedicated algo, it would be better if menclose would just use the current mrow algo and rely on pure CSS for styling notations.

NSoiffer commented 4 years ago

I don't think order matters for the current set of values. However if it does need to be specified because of some CSS properties, the order in which they are listed seems reasonable to me.

NSoiffer commented 3 years ago

This was discussed at the CG meeting today. From the notes:

FF/Webkit support menclose and almost all of the attrs
@bkardell suggested that maybe a UA stylesheet would be a trivial way to implement some of them for level 1, but eventually withdrew his suggestion

The CG felt menclose was important and since the other browsers implement it but Igalia currently doesn't plan to do it, this should move to level 2. There should be a polyfill to handle this.

NSoiffer commented 3 years ago

Filling in some details on the earlier comment...

I created a codepen sweep test of the attributes. Results:

Firefox: does all the ones listed in MathML 3 except northeastarrow (and other arrows which are listed as maybes)
Safari: all except radical, pahasorangle, and northeastarrow
MathJax: supports everything including all arrows lists as maybes