2D <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: Michael Everson <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278)
On 13 Jul 2012, at 10:57, Michael Everson wrote: > On 13 Jul 2012, at 09:49, Hans Aberg wrote: > >>> Local documents on your computer don't do me any good. >> >> FYI, in the TeX world, one can go in on CTAN <http://ctan.org/> and make a >> search <http://ctan.org/search/>. However, with the TeX Live package >> <http://www.tug.org/texlive/> installed, that is rarely needed. > > I have lived in the Mac world since 1985. :-) Well, I had a Mac Plus. :-) There is a Mac installer <http://www.tug.org/mactex/2012/>, which is what I used. I have added in ~/.profile: # Prepend MacTeX paths prepend_path PATH /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-darwin prepend_path MANPATH /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/doc/man prepend_path INFOPATH /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf/doc/info where # Add to beginning of searchpath: prepend_path() { if ! eval test -z "\"\${$1##*:$2:*}\"" -o -z "\"\${$1%%*:$2}\"" -o -z "\"\${$1##$2:*}\"" -o -z "\"\${$1##$2}\"" ; then eval "$1=$2:\$$1" fi } This makes an amazing number of programs available. >>> But what I meant was "Is it in print in the real world?" Not just in TeX >>> documentation. >> >> It is possible to publish electronically these days. Some journals may, I am >> told, when a paper is accepted, just publish the link to <http://arxiv.org/>. >> >>> Still it might be interesting to see the symbols-a4.pdf. >> >> So these characters may be well established, even if existing in electronic >> form. > > That document is 164 pages long. I would be interested in examining it after > someone else has done the background work of a first pass at identifying > which characters are already encoded. This is sort of an > emoji/wingdings/webdings scenario, I guess. Yes, it must be those well acquainted with it doing the work. When I posted requests for missing math characters around 1999-2000, there were only a few responses. So this stuff must have become popular in the last decade or so. Hans
