On 7/24/2015 6:18 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:
On 24 Jul 2015, at 16:28, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/24/2015 4:13 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:
You can add it if you think it is no problem. Proper Unicode characters in the
input help the readability, so putting them at high priority seems good.
fyi, on the agenda for the gyre font project is to have a monospaced font that
has most of unicode math so that we can have decent editing (once we have the
funding covered)
The Unicode monospace characters were added by mistake, because in computer
science, style does not affect semantics, as it does math. Looking into old
computer science books, they do not have monospace, and a I recall a Pascal
compiler on Mac OS 9 that used styled, non-monospace fonts. So a monospace font
may not be strictly necessary, though current UTF-8 plain text does not look
good. In Xcode, part of the reason is that one cannot choose font per Unicode
code point segments.
we're not talking of the monospace math alphabet (those are already
covered but the fonts) but about a monospaced font for editing and
verbatim (handy for manuals explaining math typesetting)
in a similar fashion a bold math font is not about math bold alphabets
but about a whole bold font with a couple of heavy bold alphabets (handy
for typesetting section heads in bold that have math)
Hans
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