Notations for Living Mathematical Documents

Abstract. Notations are central for understanding mathematical discourse. Readers would like to read notations that transport the meaning well and prefer notations that are familiar to them. Therefore, authors optimize the choice of notations with respect to these two criteria, while at the same time trying to remain consistent over the document and their own prior publications. In print media where notations are fixed at publication time, this is an over-constrained problem. In living documents notations can be adapted at reading time, taking reader preferences into account. We present a representational infrastructure for notations in living mathematical documents. Mathematical notations can be defined declaratively. Author and reader can extensionally define the set of available notation definitions at arbitrary document levels, and they can guide the notation selection function via intensional annotations. an abstract specification of notation definitions and the flexible rendering...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AISC
• Authors: Michael Kohlhase, Christine Müller, Florian Rabe
• Keywords: AISC 2008, Artificial Intelligence, Documents Notations, Mathematical Notations, Notations