Re: Digits (Was: What a difference a glyph makes...)

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 15:20:14 EDT


Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

> The line gets drawn somewhere, and
> there's a very strong consensus that Unicode is right in not having
> abstract characters to denote things like bold and italic.

Except in math symbols, where Unicode will soon acquire them. In
math, _sin_ would be the product of _s_, _i_, and _n_, whereas
non-italic "sin" stands for "sine".

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