[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-23 Thread John Cowan
Otto Stolz scripsit: > Of course, if you allow for > names comprising several characters, it would be better to spell out the > multiplication operator; U+22C5, U+2219, U+00B7, and 00D7 coming to mind. Yes, of course. But that wasn't at all the case I had in mind. Letting x and y be two rando

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-23 Thread J%ORG KNAPPEN
John Cowan schrieb: :Hmm. If you multiply x-bar by y-bar, surely you want the bars to be :separated, not run together into a single bar (which would be the mean :of x times y), no? In that case COMBINING MACRON would be better. :Or should x-bar times y-bar be written with a THIN SPACE separatin

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread John Cowan
Roozbeh Pournader scripsit: > I remember seeing an invisible times character somewhere, I think it was > in 3.2 tables. Would you look? Yes, at U+2062. But I think that is truly invisible, zero-width, and is used to render ab meaning a x b. -- John Cowan [EMA

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Roozbeh asked: > I remember seeing an invisible times character somewhere, I think it was > in 3.2 tables. Would you look? U+2062 INVISIBLE TIMES You can find such things at: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html and http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunicode32/ or in the ISO/I

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote: > Hmm. If you multiply x-bar by y-bar, surely you want the bars to be > separated, not run together into a single bar (which would be the mean > of x times y), no? In that case COMBINING MACRON would be better. > Or should x-bar times y-bar be written wi

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread John Cowan
Otto Stolz scripsit: > This is a sequence of two Unicode characters, viz. > U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X > U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE > Incidentally, the bar (rather than x-bar) signifies the mean; the bar > could be applied to any name indicating the mean of all and any values > having that na

[unicode] Re: x-bar character

2001-03-22 Thread Otto Stolz
Am 2001-03-21 um 18:56 UCT hat Eric Hausen geschrieben: > Can anyone tell me the character code for the x-bar symbol (mathematical > mean). This is a sequence of two Unicode characters, viz. U+0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE Incidentally, the bar (rather than x-bar) signi