> Does the name "starmath" go back to the days of "Star > Office" or even "StarWriter"? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
Sure, it goes :) > > If the LO people undertake thinking about the situation, I > would hope that, input notwithstanding, the math in their > ODF bundles be cast as some form of XML, whether MathML, an > XML guise of starmath, or ... > I guess that this is not so simple, as ODF is an ISO standard and if starmath is included in that standard as requirement (I don't know if it is), then it's not likely that they can change that easily, even if they wanted :( Also, MS Word can read ODF files, but seems to support only mathml annotated with starmath, so I guess they don't support mathml at all. BTW, the following fragment generated by tex4ht: <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mo ><</mo> <mi >c</mi></math> is replaced with --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block"><semantics><mrow><mrow/><mstyle mathvariant="italic"><mtext>c</mtext></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0">{<italic "c"}</annotation></semantics></math> --- So LO not only add the starmath annotation, but it also alters the mathml, replacing <mo>C;</mo> with <mrow></mrow>, which is something little bit different, I would say :) It seems that in fact, the mathml is generated from the starmath, not the other way. Only if the starmath is missing, it tries to create it from mathml. Best, Michal