From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 00:50:53 CDT
Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote:
> The key issue for symbols like the dominoes is not whether
> they derive from pictorial representations of the game
> tokens themselves (i.e., as pictures of the bones), but
> rather whether there is a sufficiently established practice
> of using such pictorial symbols effectively inline as
> part of text, as opposed to merely in obvious graphics
> showing entire 2-D layouts of domino positions. My own take
> is that for some subset of the domino symbols proposed, the
> evidence from the dominoes texts does pass that test.
I bet if someone took the trouble to look through enough children's
literature and driver's testing materials, they could find at least one
document that uses the STOP SIGN inline in a sentence, and that could be
cited as sufficient evidence that it should be encoded. Everything I
thought I knew about encoding symbols is wrong.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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