7169 – Improving the MathML editor parser

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Bug 7169 - Improving the MathML editor parser

Summary: Improving the MathML editor parser

Status:	ASSIGNED

Alias:	None

Product:	Amaya
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	MathML (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	P2 enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	fred.wang
QA Contact:	Vincent Quint

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Reported:	2009-07-29 17:02 UTC by fred.wang
Modified:	2009-08-05 18:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Example of parsable chemical formulae (355 bytes, text/plain) 2009-07-29 17:02 UTC, fred.wang	Details

Description fred.wang 2009-07-29 17:02:22 UTC

Created attachment 734 [details]
Example of parsable chemical formulae

We should improve the way the sequence of characters entered by the user is parsed.

Some work is already available for chemical formulae, the mode is enabled/disabled using ctrl + m, ctrl + c (see attachment for examples).

This work can be extended to add more modes, for instance to allow a LaTeX-like syntax. See also http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/2009JanMar/0086.html

Comment 1 fred.wang 2009-07-29 17:07:23 UTC

The next step is to replace Flex by Quex, so that all unicode input are allowed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quex

Comment 2 fred.wang 2009-08-05 18:20:03 UTC

	I've just committed some changes to Mathedit_parser that improve the way it is compiled and prepare Quex as a replacement of Flex. The work is not finished yet, so I've disabled the chemistry mode for the moment. I'll give you more information when I'm done with this.