Current Goals for Implementing MathML

Status

MathML support is currently being prepared as a patch to the WebCore code. There is one ​existing patch that uses CSS and provides parsing support but the CSS may be insufficient to render many MathML constructs.

A new patch will be available and linked from here that supports direct rendering of MathML using WebCore's internals.

Initial Goals

Support for the following elements will initially be provided by this patch:

• Presentation Markup:
  • without any support for class or sytle manipulations necessarily working (i.e. no guarantees)
  • Token Elements:
    • basic support for the 'mathsize' attribute (see ​Mathematics style attributes common to token elements).
    • ​mi w/o any other attributes than mathsize.
    • ​mn w/o any other attributes than mathsize.
    • ​mo w/o any other attributes than mathsize.
    • ​mtext w/o any other attributes than mathsize.
  • General Layout Schemata:
    • ​mrow
    • ​mfrac with support for all attributes but bevelled and without support for unit sizing of line thickness.
    • ​mroot
    • ​msqrt
    • ​mfenced
  • Script and Limit Schemata:
    • ​msub w/o support for the 'subscriptshift' attribute
    • ​msup w/o support for the 'superscriptshift' attribute
    • ​msubsup w/o support for the 'subscriptshift' or 'superscriptshift' attributes
    • ​munder w/o support for the 'accentunder' attribute
    • ​mover w/o support for the 'accent' attribute
    • ​munderover w/o support for the 'accent' or 'accentunder' attributes
  • Tables and Matrices:
    • ​mtable w/o attributes
    • ​mtr w/o attributes except 'rowalign', and 'columnalign' attributes.
    • ​mtd w/o attributes except 'rowspan', 'columnspan', 'rowalign', and 'columnalign' attributes.