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When I was struggling with issue #4, it started to worry me that set1#subset was being rendered as \subset, since I'm used to interpreting that glyph as "proper subset", although I of course am aware of the "just subset" interpretation. The problem is that looking up the subset symbol in the set1 CD does nothing to dispel the ambiguity — if anything it entrenches the ambiguity by only stating transitivity as an FMP of set1#subset, notably the one property that "subset" and "proper subset" have in common!
Reading the whole of set1.xhtml does clarify the issue, since there is a separate symbol set1#prsubset that when contrasted against set1#subset clearly denotes "proper subset" (however, the MathML rendering of both are the same!), but this is not something you easily do when confused about the meaning. Therefore I would suggest adding as a first FMP of set1#prsubset the following:
When I was struggling with issue #4, it started to worry me that set1#subset was being rendered as \subset, since I'm used to interpreting that glyph as "proper subset", although I of course am aware of the "just subset" interpretation. The problem is that looking up the subset symbol in the set1 CD does nothing to dispel the ambiguity — if anything it entrenches the ambiguity by only stating transitivity as an FMP of set1#subset, notably the one property that "subset" and "proper subset" have in common!
Reading the whole of set1.xhtml does clarify the issue, since there is a separate symbol set1#prsubset that when contrasted against set1#subset clearly denotes "proper subset" (however, the MathML rendering of both are the same!), but this is not something you easily do when confused about the meaning. Therefore I would suggest adding as a first FMP of set1#prsubset the following:
This is of course a candidate for a DefMP, but that's a later issue.
Also changing the rendering to use \subseteq would be nice, but I'm not sure if there could be political issued involved in that.
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