On 02/17/2016 11:18 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:08:31 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > >> you're an american citizen who likes $x^2$ but to call if >> beautiful ... €x^2€ nor £x^2£ (in 8 bit encodings / local keyboards >> times) all look bad ... > > Hans, you forgot: ¥x^2¥, ₽x^2₽, ₱x^2₱, ₹x^2₹, ... > Besides, U+0024 comes from ASCII and all programmers know that it is a > perfectly valid and useful character.
Of course, and even ₧x²₧ or even ₯x²₯... >> we need a proper begin/end symbol .. > > Too bad Knuth did not choose ¡x^2! Excuse me, Alan, this is exclamation in Spanish (and only in Spanish). Just out of curiosity, why do you think he should have chosen that? Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
