On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:07:25AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:38:21AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: ... > > > You can make a text bold, and meaning will remain. If you make a > > mathematical expression all bold, it will have a completely different > > meaning. > > So? Let's imagine you're composing an html document. What's to prevent > you from wrapping a mathematical alphanumeric character with <b></b>?
that is a different kind of "boldness", used to emphasise bold mathematical symbols are different symbols from those not bold. mathematical symbols enclosed in <b></b> are just emphasised normal mathematical symbols, not bold mathematical symbols > > > > You're telling me why the context matters. You're not telling me why > > > the unicode naming of the code points matters. > > > > > > If the reader sees "Branden", why should it matter whether any underlying > > > code points were designated by the consortium as mathematical? If the > > > > because if code points are mathematical, I parse it as > > B \times r \times a \times n \times d \times e \times n > > But if the context is not mathematical, how can you tell that mathematical > code points are used? I cannot, therefore there are special mathematical characters to distinguish it. > > If I say xy-2yz=0, and I don't use mathematical characters, why would > you not interpet that as indicating multiplication? because I would interpret it as a comparision in some kind of programming language, the one that allows variables to begin with digit. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
