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: [OT] Roman numeral arithmetic (was: Re: [lojban] (from lojban-beginners) pi'e)

2001-09-23 Thread From Net Link
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:46:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be fascinated to see some sort of evidence that addition and subtraction is easier in Roman numerals than in Hindu-Arabic (European) numerals. I + I = II X + X = XX X + X + X = XXX C + X = CX CX - X = C For these

Re: XML Blueberry Requirements

2001-06-21 Thread From Net Link
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:40:22 -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: At 9:35 PM +0100 6/20/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In addition, XML 1.0 attempts to adapt to the line-end conventions of | various modern operating systems, but discriminates against the | convention used on IBM and

Re: Word, Asian characters, and Arial Unicode

2001-05-07 Thread From Net Link
On Sun, 6 May 2001 19:22:38 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Chan wrote: #On Sun, 6 May 2001, David J. Perry wrote: # # Word 2000 (under Win98) insists on using Arial Unicode MS whenever you # insert a character in the CJK Punctuation range. There are some characters # here that might be useful in non-CJK

Re: Characters used in programming languages (was: Re: Word, Asian characters, ...)

2001-05-07 Thread From Net Link
On Mon, 7 May 2001 11:35:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #In a message dated 2001-05-07 6:55:01 Pacific Daylight Time, #[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # # Current programming languages (C++ and others) have violated # what I consider good language design by overloading the same # glyphs for