On 2012-07-12, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 Jul 2012, at 22:20, Julian Bradfield wrote: > >> But wanting to do so would be crazy. My mu-nu ligature is, as far as I know, >> used only by me (and co-authors who let me do the typesetting), and so if >> Unicode has any sanity left, it would not encode it. > > Is it in print?
Of course it's in print. The true ligature is only in the tech reports and preprints that I produced myself (e.g. http://www.lfcs.inf.ed.ac.uk/reports/98/ECS-LFCS-98-385/index.html ). The journal versions have a hacked symbol which is just mu nu kerned to overlap appropriately. Sadly, this was before the days when TeX systems were sufficiently well standardized that one had a fighting chance of including fonts with the papers! >> My colleagues in the Edinburgh PEPA group did try to get their pet symbol >> encoded (a bowtie where the two triangles overlap somewhat rather than just >> touching), but were refused; although that symbol now appears in hundreds of >> papers by dozens of authors from all over the world. > > If so, then it should be encoded. The relevant person is on holiday at the moment, but I'll find out from him the real story of the symbol. I think this was before the supplementary planes opened up. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
