[Trac] [OpenMath] #102: Rethink rendering of arith1#times

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#102: Rethink rendering of arith1#times
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     Reporter:  clange      |          Owner:  kohlhase  
         Type:  task        |         Status:  new       
     Priority:  major       |      Milestone:            
    Component:  MathML CDs  |        Version:            
   Resolution:              |       Keywords:            
Include_gantt:  0           |   Dependencies:            
   Due_assign:  YYYY/MM/DD  |      Due_close:  YYYY/MM/DD
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Comment (by kohlhase):

 Replying to [comment:1 jhd]:
 > Replying to [ticket:102 clange]:
 > > Invisible times is nice, but what if we have two numbers, or "variable
 times number"?  See jomdoc:comment:ticket:77:3.
 > I don't have access to that ticket (as far as I know).
 > However, it strikes me that InvisibleTimes is the RIGHT translation into
 presentation (because that is what we are talking about, not actual
 rendering as such), since it leaves the renderer in charge of deciding
 whether a printed/spoken/Braille/whatever mark is NECESSARY.
 As you know I am always in favor of an idealistic argument (which BTW, I
 am not sure is correct, we should probably put the whole issue up to the
 public MathML mailing list, where Murray Sargent can see this). But
 UniCode DOES define ⁢ to be invisible (in all situations),
 but maybe audibly represented. So I do not think that there is any leeway
 for the rendering agent to make a visible glyph between two numbers.
 Therefore we need something else there.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.mathweb.org/OM3/ticket/102#comment:3>
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