Open Bug 209693 (linebreaksAroundMath) Opened 21 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Bad line breaks before and after MathML insertions

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(Core :: MathML, defect, P5)

defect

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(Reporter: bronger, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 3 open bugs, )

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(Whiteboard: [see comment 13])

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(2 files, 6 obsolete files)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Theoretically, a <mml:math><mml:mi>x</mml:mi></mml:math>-Achse can be broken into two lines: the "x", and the "-Achse" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: The whole expression must be kept together. If non-whitespace is directly attached to the inline formula, the must not be any break between the non-whitespace and the formula. May be related to bug 172819.
Summary: Bad line breaks arown MathML insertions → Bad line breaks before and after MathML insertions
Attached file Testcase ... (obsolete) (deleted) —
This is a testcase which demonstrates, that this error has been solved. ...
Attachment #151823 - Attachment mime type: text/html → application/xhtml+xml
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It's reproducible with Firefox 1.0.7, it's still a bug, it still should be fixed, and this is a stange method for finding bugs that are worth being fixed (whatever this means).
QA Contact: ian → mathml
Attached file Test vertical alignement with stretchy ops (obsolete) (deleted) —
In the case symmetric="false", I suppose the vertical bar should have its center aligned with the centers of red mspace's, but here the bottoms are aligned.
Attached file Updated Testcase (obsolete) (deleted) —
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Attached image Screenshot of the testcase (obsolete) (deleted) —
(Please ignore comment 4) I attached an updated testcase and a screenshot that shows that the bug still happens. But is it really a bug? I've not checked what the spec says.
This still happens in firefox 3.5.3 (fedora 11, x86_64). Is it a bug? Yes; the intent is that <math display="inline"> should act like any inline element; <math display="block"> like a block element. The MathML 2 specification perhaps wasn't as explicit about this as it could have been, but we are hoping the MathML 3 spec (currently in last call) will be clearer.
Attached file Updated testcase (obsolete) (deleted) —
Sorry, I previously attached the wrong file.
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Attached file Testcase, with <math/> replaced by a <span/> (obsolete) (deleted) —
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Attached file Testcase (deleted) —
Attachment #151823 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #406782 - Attachment is obsolete: true
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Attached image Expected result (Amaya) (deleted) —
MathML3: "Moreover, when the math element is embedded in a larger document, a block math element should be treated as a block element as appropriate for the document type (typically as a new vertical block), whereas an inline math element should be treated as inline (typically exactly as if it were a sequence of words in normal text). In particular, this applies to spacing and linebreaking: for instance, there should not be spaces or line breaks inserted between inline math and any immediately following punctuation."
Assignee: rbs → nobody
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86 → All
BTW, another quite common situation is when the inline math is followed by a punctuation marks. For example a comma or a period can be moved at the beginning of a new line, which is really not expected.
Let me add some real cases, from the journal I work for: http://pjm.math.berkeley.edu/pjm/2010/244-2/p04.xhtml In Firefox that the renderer is inconsistent in deciding whether to break before or after a relational operator. In TeX, inline math breaks after. Also it allows breaks just before the argument of a function. Finally (a different bug), the delimiters in the displayed equation are sometimes ridiculously large. In http://pjm.math.berkeley.edu/pjm/2009/242-2/p02.xhtml one can see a break just _after_ a parenthesis. I would emphasize that the desired solution to this is _not_ to add additional tags in the mathml such as nobreak. Mathml is supposed to describe the math content, not how it is laid out. It is the browser's job to render it correctly. I assume this is possible in the cases above, because TeX is perfectly capable of choosing the correct breaks in (say) $(x+y)+z=x+(y+z)$ (with much less verbosity).
(In reply to comment #16) > Let me add some real cases, from the journal I work for: > > http://pjm.math.berkeley.edu/pjm/2010/244-2/p04.xhtml > > In Firefox that the renderer is inconsistent in deciding whether > to break before or after a relational operator. In TeX, inline math > breaks after. Also it allows breaks just before the argument of a > function. Finally (a different bug), the delimiters in the displayed > equation are sometimes ridiculously large. > > In > http://pjm.math.berkeley.edu/pjm/2009/242-2/p02.xhtml > one can see a break just _after_ a parenthesis. Okay, but this is another bug. What you desire is better line breaks *within* the inline MathML. This is probably even a very different place in the source code.
> Okay, but this is another bug. What you desire is better line breaks *within* > the inline MathML. This is probably even a very different place in the source > code. Right, this is what Matthew reported in bug 508120 (that I've just renamed to make clear it is about line break within MathML formulas)
No longer blocks: mathml-linebreaking
Alias: linebreaksAroundMath
Whiteboard: [see comment 13]
Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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