Re: less-than or equal to with dot in the less-than part?

there is another issue with these symbols -- they appear among the mathematical symbols but, in the reference given, they are used as delimiters

I know of no other application for these symbols other than as delimiters -- are they used as mathematical operators?

and how, in general, would one define the properties for characters which may sometimes be operators, and sometimes be delimiters?

/phil

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On Wed, 10/8/16, Asmus Freytag (c) <asmusf_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: less-than or equal to with dot in the less-than part?
 To: unicode_at_unicode.org
 Date: Wednesday, 10 August, 2016, 4:16 PM
 
 On 8/10/2016 5:06 AM,
 Andrew West wrote:
> On 10 August 2016 at
 12:21, Costello, Roger L. <costello_at_mitre.org>
 wrote:
>> Do you know if there is
 another version of the symbol, but with a straight equals
 sign rather than a slanted equals sign? (The book that I
 referred to uses a straight equals sign not a slanted equals
 sign)
> No, but there are lots of
 standardized variants for mathematical glyph
> variants of this sort (see first section
 of
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt),
 so
> you could ask the UTC to define two
 more mathematical standardized
>
 variants:
>
> 2A7F
 FE00; with straight equal; # LESS-THAN OR SLANTED EQUAL TO
 WITH DOT INSIDE
> 2A80 FE00; with
 straight equal; # GREATER-THAN OR SLANTED EQUAL TO
> WITH DOT INSIDE
>
> Then all you would need is to get someone
 to support the new
> standardized
 variants in a math font.
>
 
 Unicode does not use
 standardized variants for that particular
 distinctions in the undotted part of that
 family of symbols.
 
 A./
 
Received on Thu Aug 11 2016 - 02:38:59 CDT