Re: Root and fraction (2 new symbols)

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Dmitry Turin wrote:

> JH> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr25/
> JH> http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/

> But these are the markup language once again.

Yes. Mathematics layout is not plain text.

> Plain text is used in _all_ type of documents
> (biologistic one, economistic one, texts of schoolchildren),
> and manufactorers of software must be prevented from embeding of
> _particular_ markup language into all system.

So you want to force software developers to use a plain text encoding standard for
*layout* to prevent them from using markup standards? This doesn't seem to me to be a good
idea.

John Hudson

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