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From: Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>
Subject: Part 4, 7.1 Math
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Rex,

Not a comment (but considering it) but curious why OpenXML did not use 
MathML for 7.1 Math?

Trivial example: MathML 3.4.5 Overscript versus Part 4, 7.1.2.1 acc 
(Accent).

I haven't checked carefully but I would be surprised to find that 
OpenXML has some formatting requirement that is not meet by MathML 2.0.

Just curious if there was some consideration that is not readily 
apparent that drove the choice to create another markup language for 
representation of math?

Using MathML would not mean that an application would have to support 
all of MathML but it would be there should an application choose to 
support some additional feature defined by MathML. Built-in 
extensibility I guess you could say.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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