At 13:32 -0500 2002-01-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 2002-01-19 9:33:46 Pacific Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>> Has there been any consideration of practical alternatives, such as >>>selecting a lookalike or similar character from the plethora of those >>>already encoded and promoting its use to represent the "newpi" >>> character? >> >> My own proposal was a pictogram: A circle with a radius to "3 o'clock", >> i.e. from 0 to 1 in the complex number plane. Pacman with mouth closed. >> Does that already exist in Unicode? :-) My dad's version is a lot more >> palatable for most people. > >A large number of glyphic variations of Latin and Greek letters were just >added to Unicode 3.1 with the sole purpose of serving as mathematical >identifiers. Apparently it was stressed by the AMS and others that these >variations (bold, italic, double-struck, sans serif, etc.) are all >significant and distinct in math notation. Could one of these characters, >already approved and part of Unicode, be adopted to represent 2pi?
That's up the the AMS, not to us. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
