From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 13:25:50 EDT
Jill.Ramonsky@Aculab.com wrote:
> I'm reasonably sure that this question reflects my own ignorance, rather
> than some problem with the standard, but nonetheless, I am confused.
>
> For a start, we have the letters A to Z starting at 000041.
These are the normal letters.
> Then we have the circled forms starting at 0024B6.
These were added because of compatibility issues with East-Asian
character sets.
> Then we have the fullwidth forms starting at 00FF21.
These were added because of compatibility issues with East-Asian
character sets.
> Now we have mathematical bold forms starting at 01D400,
These are to be used in mathematics, where bold & non-bold characters
mean different things.
> mathematical italic forms starting at 1D434,
> mathematical bold italic forms starting at 1D468
> mathematical script forms starting at 1D49C,
> mathematical bold script forms starting at 1D4D0,
> mathematical fraktur forms starting at 1D504,
> mathematical double-struck forms starting at 1D538,
See above.
> Aren't these differences that could be better managed by, say, clicking on
> the BOLD button in a GUI environment.
If your software supports mark-up, yes. If you want to encode
mathematics in plain text, you'll have to use the mathematical bold,
italic etc. characters. Most mathematical formulæ will require mark-up
for different reasons, though.
Stefan
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