Re: Superscript asterisk

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 1999 - 15:20:02 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?

No.

--Ken

>
> Scott Horne
>



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