> On Oct 3, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > a.lukyanov wrote: > >> I think that the right thing to do would be to create several new >> control/formatting characters, like this: >> >> "previous character is superscript" >> "previous character is subscript" >> "previous character is small caps (for use in phonetic transcription >> only)" >> "previous character is mathematical blackletter" >> etc >> >> Then people will be able to apply this features on any character as >> long as their font supports it. > > I happen to think this would be exactly the wrong thing to do, > completely contrary to the principles of plain text that Unicode was > founded upon. But you never know what might gain traction, so stay > tuned.
I guess I don’t see how it is fundamentally different from other variant selector uses within Unicode, and the ability to write properly formatted mathematical and chemical formulas (for example) in a plain text environment like text messaging seems like a fairly compelling use case. -steve
