Chapman Math: ASCIIsvg Comments and Suggestions

ASCIIsvg Comments and Suggestions

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Q: Is it possible to get dashed lines? Thanks in advance!

A: Yes, this is possible with Version 1.2.1 (and later). Try

strokedasharray = "10 5 2 5"

in the ASCIIsvg Editor. (It works like the stroke-dasharray attribute in SVG.)


Q: I can see svg on the adobe demo page but not on the asciisvg homepage. I am using firefox 1 on a fedora2 i386 linux with adobe 3.01x88 plugin.

libNPSVG3.so in plugin directory ADOBE_SVG_VIEWER_PATH set to the full path of the SVG viewer

BTW I love asciiMathML and use it on my uniwakka wiki ``sum_{n=1}^{\infty}x^2`` -tim mckenna -timmck@cns.bu.edu

A: Currently the ASCIIsvg approach does not work with the ADOBE svgviewer on Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape (the problem is that the plugin does not communicate with the browser window, so javascript can't be used to insert new graphics elements). But as far as I know, ASCIIsvg does work with naive svg-enabled versions of Firefox and/or Mozilla. I've only tried it on Fedora with svg-enabled Mozilla, and there was an unresolved issue with text fonts (they didn't show up, and I didn't have enough insight into Fedora to figure out why in a reasonable amount of time). I would be interested to hear if it works for you. Note that (as per instructions on http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/svg/svgenabledmozillafirefox.html) one still has to install the Adobe svg viewer even though it is not used to display the svg.

I'm glad to hear ASCIIMathML is useful. I hope ASCIIsvg is another nice addition to communicating math on the web. -- Peter


Q: Is there any way to do clipping?

A: No, at this point there is no ASCIIsvg command that implements clipping. Shouldn't be too hard to add, so perhaps in the next version I'll give it a try. -- Peter


Q: Very nice work. Eventually, we can built an entire mathematical document publishing "software" that run entirely in the browser by javascript? Where the document, xml, are "portable" ("xml" should replace "pdf" one day)? Not mentioning the ability to do simple calculation by "understanding" MathML/ASCII expression as input (the ability to do simple plot is already presented)?

A: In principle, yes. But it is quite difficult to make such documents cross-browser compatible, and there is not much agreement on what syntax should be used for the mathematical and graphical input notation. So for the foreseeable future, LaTeX->pdf->AdobeReaderPlugin remains the defacto standard (at least for static mathematical documents).


Q: why not check for opera in isSVGavailable() and return null on recent versions? Opera 9 works perfectly well if you allow it to...
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