> On 24 Jul 2015, at 18:34, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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)
Right. But it was added because it is popular in computer science to use a monospace font, though not strictly necessary from the semantic point of view. So it makes me think that, instead of a monospace font for all the math characters, one might switch to a variable-width font in the input code, as actuallye been the case in the past. All that monospace tabbing will break, that is for sure. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
