Italics with everything? (was Re: IPA a vowels)

• Next message: Addison Phillips: "RE: Extending Unicode character viewers"
• Previous message: Bohdan Kantor: "Extending Unicode character viewers"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
• Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

At 06:37 -0700 9/10/1999, Markus Kuhn wrote:
[snip]
> - A proportional or italic font will typically not come with block
> drawing characters, because these make only sense for
> upright fixed-width fonts. Similarly, italic fonts will usually
> not have all mathematical operators and APL symbols, because
> these are traditionally only used in upright form.
[snip]

Your conclusion is correct, but not for the reason you give. APL is
supposed to combine italic letters with upright math symbols. I have a copy
of the font "APLitalic" somewhere around here that I used to use in APL
News. (I've given up APL symbols myself. Iverson's newest APL-like language
uses pure ASCII.)

>Markus
>
>--
>Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
>Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

--
Edward Cherlin   edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu
"It isn't what you don't know that hurts you, it's
what you know that ain't so."--Mark Twain, or else
some other prominent 19th century humorist and wit

• Next message: Addison Phillips: "RE: Extending Unicode character viewers"
• Previous message: Bohdan Kantor: "Extending Unicode character viewers"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
• Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:51 EDT