Re: Superscript asterisk

From: Scott Horne (shorne@metaphasetech.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 1999 - 15:00:31 EDT


> Because the AMS, MathSci TEX, STIX, and math fonts in general have consistently
> made distinctions between such entities as phi and straightphi,
> epsilon and straightepsilon, etc.

TeX fonts also encode several sizes of grouping characters (such as
parentheses), radical signs, and other characters, and components
from which to construct arbitrarily large ones. They distinguish
text figures (so-called \oldstyle numerals) from lining figures.
Will all these system-specific entities get space in Unicode, too?

Scott Horne



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