The W3C today published MathML3 and the MathML for CSS Profile as proposed recommendations.
PR is almost the final hurdle, and assuming none of the W3C members object at this stage, then we should be on course to reach Recommendation status in September.
As always, comments are welcome on www-math@w3.org, or via this blog.
A new draft of MathML3 has been released: http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-MathML3-20100610/.
This is (again) a Last Call draft. There were sufficient changes and clarifications resulting from the Candidate Recommendation review draft that we decided to issue a Last Call again, to allow people to comment on the changes before (hopefully) we progress to Proposed Recommendation status.
We have provided a Diff marked version and a List of changes to make it easier to review the changes since the CR draft.
The W3C today published XML Entity Definitions for Characters as a Recommendation (i.e., Web standard). It's taken a long time (over a decade) but I hope you find them useful...
Mostly these days I suppose I'm known for MathML and XSLT stuff. Before that I used TeX rather a lot (I must check one of these days whether I have yet posted as often to xsl-list as I have to comp.text.tex). Around the time I started to use TeX (1987 or thereabouts) I was mainly programming in the functional programming language Standard ML. I haven't done so much with ML since, but the ML family of languages have been having something of a renaissance recently, especially with Microsoft's F# language.
So I've been returning to my roots and doing a bit of functional programming over the last few days, writing an article hosted at NAG on calling the NAG library from F#.
As noted in a previous post, XML Entity Definitions for Characters is now a Proposed Recommendation.
To help the W3C make the decision to make the final transition to Recommendation status the Advisory Committee members are asked to submit comments. If you are in a W3C member company, please ask your AC representative to comment via the form
http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/PR-xml-entity-names-20100211/
by the 11th of March!
I'm pleased to be able to report that today the W3C has published
XML Entity Definitions for Characters
as a Proposed Recommendation.
It's only really a list of names and numbers, but it seems to have taken up a large chunk of my life since I accidentally fell into supporting these things.
