Re: Too narrowly defined: DIVISION SIGN & COLON

From: Hans Aberg <haberg-1_at_telia.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:36:53 +0200

On 12 Jul 2012, at 19:23, Asmus Freytag wrote:

> Here's my *updated* summary of the annotations that we've been discussing so far:
>
> U+003A COLON
> * also used to denote division or scale, for that usage 2236 : RATIO is preferred in mathematical use

Perhaps the mathematical styles that exists in both upright and italics should have it mentioned that the former might be preferred for constants and the latter for variables. I do though not have reference for it.

Hans
Received on Thu Jul 12 2012 - 17:38:21 CDT

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