I am using the ratio character in the final 3∶5. Whether or not there is a distinction between that and 3:5, and what that distinction is, seems to depend entirely on the font in question.
Bizarrely, it does seem to have 3 dots in Lucida Sans. ------------------------------ Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033> * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/7/11 Mark Davis ☕ <[email protected]>: > > I would disagree about the preference for ratio; I think it is a > historical > > accident in Unicode. > > > > What people use and have used for ratio is simply a colon. One writes > 3:5, > > and I doubt that there was a well-established visual difference that > > demanded a separate code for it, so someone would need to write 3∶5 > instead. > > Is that me or I see 3 vertical dots in your last line (instead of 2 > vertical dots for the usual colon) ? This unusual sign is certainly > NOT the one used to note scales on maps or ratios. We use and see the > 2-dots colon almost always. > > The 3-dots symbol (or punctuation) is clearly distinct, and not an > accident. It is very uncommon. It is not a duplicate encoding. May be > it is used for noting ratios (I've never seen that) or as > asupplementtary mathematical operator, or as a custom separator > similar in use to the vertical pipe in some contexts that require > several types of separators visually distinct. > > Did you type the correct character ? >
