On 1/9/2019 4:41 PM, Mark E. Shoulson
via Unicode wrote:
On 1/9/19 2:30 AM, Asmus Freytag via
Unicode wrote:
English use of italics on isolated words
to disambiguate the reading of some sentences is a
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 02:33:02PM -0700, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> James Kass wrote:
> > (I still get a kick out of this:)
> > http://www.ewellic.org/mathtext.html
> Andrew West’s online “Unicode Text Styler” includes non-math
> characters (like circled and fullwidth) as well, and is
On 1/9/19 4:25 AM, David Starner via Unicode wrote:
Honestly, I could argue that case should not be encoded. It would
simplify so much processing of Latin script text, and most of the time
case-sensitive operations are just wrong. Case is clearly a headache
that has to be dealt with in
On 1/9/19 12:33 AM, David Starner via Unicode wrote:
Is there any way to preserve The Art of Computer Programming except as
a PDF or its TeX sources? Grabbing a different book near me, I don't
see any way to preserve them except as full-color paged reproductions.
Looking at one data format,
On 1/9/19 2:30 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
English use of italics on isolated words to disambiguate the reading
of some sentences is a convention. Everybody who does it, does it the
same way. Not supported in plain text.
German books from the Fraktur age used Antiqua for Latin and
James Kass wrote:
> It's probably old-fashioned to say that technology should be forced to
> accomodate people rather than the other way around. But it's good to
> note that efforts are still being made on behalf of the users to make
> progress towards U.C.S. inclusion.
I'm as opposed to this
I suggest that a solution to the problem would be to encode a COMBINING
ITALICIZER character, such that it only applies to the character that it
immediately follows. So, for example, to make the word apricot become
displayed in italics one would use seven COMBINING ITALICIZER
characters, one
On 1/9/2019 1:37 AM, Tex via Unicode
wrote:
James Kass wrote:
If a text is published in all italics, that’s style/font
choice. If a text is published using italics and roman
On 1/9/2019 1:06 AM, James Kass via
Unicode wrote:
Asmus Freytag wrote,
> Still, not supported in plain text (unless you abuse the
> math alphabets for things they were not intended for).
The unintended
James Kass wrote:
If a text is published in all italics, that’s style/font choice. If a text is
published using italics and roman contrastively and consistently, and everybody
else is doing it pretty much the same way, that’s a convention.
Asmus Freytag responded:
But not all
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:58 PM James Kass via Unicode
wrote:
>
> David Starner wrote,
>
> > Can some books be mostly handled with Unicode plain text
> > and italics? Sure. HTML can handle them quite nicely. ...
>
> Yes, many books can be handled very well with HTML using simple
> mark-up. If
Asmus Freytag wrote,
> Still, not supported in plain text (unless you abuse the
> math alphabets for things they were not intended for).
The unintended usage of math alphanumerics in the real world is fairly
widespread, at least in screen names.
(I still get a kick out of this:)
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