On 2012-07-13, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 Jul 2012, at 11:07, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> So... U+1D7CC MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL MU NU LIGATURE, since it's published > and (assuming the work is worthy; I cannot judge) might be cited by others. It *might*, by some hapless master's student regurgitating the proof. But that doesn't mean it should be encoded. It's an ad hoc symbol, local to a particular series of papers (in so far as there is a customary symbol, it's \sigma, but in that series of papers I needed \sigma for another purpose), and within those papers, local to the proof of particular theorems. Anybody who reads the papers with understanding will realize that, and therefore feel free to use any other symbol that is convenient to them, if they don't feel like putting together a mu-nu symbol. Once, I used $\mu \atop \nu$ (a small mu on top of a small nu) instead -- that's in print too, in a very expensive book! Would you want to encode that too? If you're looking for more characters to encode, I'd rather see COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE BELOW which is used in Ladefoged and Maddieson, The Sounds of the World's Language, to denote the strident vowels of Khoisan languages, and which I therefore use in my work too. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
