Re: \setupMMLappearance

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Duncan Hothersall wrote:
> Hello MathMLers.
> 
> I just discovered the very promising \setupMMLappearance command, which
> looked like it held the answer to one of my most niggling of problems
> with display MathML processing - the fact that in a tabular layout using
> <mtable> I couldn't make the left-hand-side right-aligned, the middle
> (equals sign) centred and the right-hand-side left-aligned. The default
> layout has all columns centred.
> 
> So having looked through the sources I tried
> \setupMMLappearance[mtable][alternative=b] and to my joy the horizontal
> alignment seemed to be perfect. But... the vertical spacing seems to
> have changed as well. There is now just a bit more vertical space
> between the rows, which throws my existing pagination out of whack, and
> also looks ugly.
> 
> I think I reached my limit on understanding the sources, so I wonder if
> someone could help by telling me if there are any other options for the
> magical \setupMMLappearance command which might help, or indeed any
> other fine-tuning commands for MathML layout.
> 
> One other thing I'd really like to be able to do is have the entire
> equation aligned on the left rather than centred in the text flow. Is
> there an option for that?

can you prepare a test file?

Hans

btw, sometime ago i rewrote the mml code in a more readable way but i could not 
find time to integrate it yet



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