Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread William_J_G Overington
Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described as follows. 4X1F O LEFT

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/25/2015 12:07 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread William_J_G Overington
Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described as follows. 4X1F O LEFT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS TOP CORNER 4X20 C RIGHT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS BOTTOM CORNER 4X21 O LEFT BRACKET, SOLIDUS BOTTOM CORNER

Aw: Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread Jörg Knappen
@unicode.org Betreff:Re: Square Brackets with Tick On 2015-08-22, Nigel Small ni...@nigelsmall.com wrote: 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 298F; 298E; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 2990

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described as follows. 4X1F O LEFT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS TOP

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-23 Thread Nigel Small
Thanks to everyone for your responses so far. In terms of my comment on which brackets make intuitive pairs, I should perhaps have explained my thought process more clearly. If one is to consider the possible origins of these symbols, one likely idea is that they could be used to symbolise a

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:32:45 -0700 Asmus Freytag (t) asmus-...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On 8/22/2015 9:35 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: There is no inherent meaning to the order of codepoints, it's just convenience. And for that reason, we have property files to explicitly give the properties

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/22/2015 2:47 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: But codepoints are normally orderly until they enter the ISO approval process. Thereafter, disorder creeps in, and becomes ever more likely as blocks fill up Haha, good one. . The

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/22/2015 9:35 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: There is no inherent meaning to the order of codepoints, it's just convenience. And for that reason, we have property files to explicitly give the properties rather than asking the user to "glean"

Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Nigel Small
Hi all I am looking for clarification on an aspect of Unicode bracket pairing, specifically in relation to the following four characters: 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 298F; 298E; o # LEFT SQUARE

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Nigel Small ni...@nigelsmall.com Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:08:48 +0100 I am looking for clarification on an aspect of Unicode bracket pairing, specifically in relation to the following four characters: 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER 298E; 298F; c #

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2015-08-22, Nigel Small ni...@nigelsmall.com wrote: 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 298F; 298E; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 2990; 298D; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN

Re: Square brackets

2001-10-09 Thread Michael Everson
At 17:08 -0700 2001-10-08, Rick McGowan wrote: I saw your examples of these the other day in Greek text. The upper corners also occur widely. For example, they occur in Kenkyusha's Pocket Japanese English dictionary (and others) to denote syllabic stress. They are precisely the same kind

Re: Square brackets

2001-10-09 Thread From Net Link
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:32:05 -0700 (PDT), Kenneth Whistler wrote: This would definitely not work. The problem is that while the CJK left/right corner brackets are clearly bracketing punctuation, you have to contend with their other properties as CJK punctuation. Most systems will default them to

Re: Square brackets

2001-10-09 Thread Michael Everson
At 08:25 -0400 2001-10-09, From Net Link wrote: I think the arithmetic set of symbols should be extended with more parenthesis. Provide data regarding the use of such parentheses and propose them. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com 15 Port Chaeimhghein

Re: Square brackets

2001-10-09 Thread Kenneth Whistler
under ballot and will be included in Unicode 3.2 in the near future: white curly brackets white parentheses z notation image brackets z notation binding brackets square brackets with underbar square brackets with tick in (top/bottom) corners angle brackets with dot black tortoise shell brackets See

Re: Square brackets

2001-10-08 Thread Rick McGowan
Nick, et al -- You mentioned: > In Classical scholarship (and I suspect, beyond it), all > four possible corner brackets are routinely used as punctuation > to delimit text in some way --- I saw your examples of these the other day in Greek text. The upper corners also occur widely. For

Re: Square brackets

2001-10-08 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Those are terminal graphics pieces, designed to be used with vertical extenders to create large square brackets on terminals or similar contexts. But as symbols, they will look much like the ceilings and floors. 23BE, 23BF, 23CB, 23CC: DENTISTRY SYMBOL LIGHT VERTICAL AND TOP RIGHT, BR, TL, BL