Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> For the "married" symbol use the mathematical "infinity" symbol: U+221E (no pun intended). Definitely not! Attached is a glyph of the font `tcrm1000' (for TeX). Werner <>

Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Either one of the following offers itself as a candidate: > > U+29DC INCOMPLETE INFINITY > > U+29DE INFINITY NEGATED WITH VERTICAL BAR > > How about U+238C ? Well, Jörg Knappen's font has a glyph for `divorced' which looks like `o|o'. Werner

Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread Otto Stolz
Lukas Pietsch wrote: Actually, the symbol and several others already exist and seem to be standardized. The "Duden", the authoritative source on German orthography, describes them in its section on typesetting practices, under the heading of "genealogical symbols". Besides the asterisk (born), the

Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread Lukas Pietsch
> For the "married" symbol use the mathematical "infinity" symbol: > U+221E (no pun intended). > Indeed, one could go a step further and introduce (?) a symbol for divorced: > Either one of the following offers itself as a candidate: > U+29DC INCOMPLETE INFINITY > U+29DE INFINITY NEGATED WITH VERTI

RE: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread Handwerker, Reinhard (ISS Atlanta)
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:00 To: Handwerker, Reinhard (ISS Atlanta) Cc: Doug Ewell; Unicode Mailing List; Werner LEMBERG Subject: RE: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign . Reinhard Handwerker wrote, > Indeed, one could go a step further and introdu

RE: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread jameskass
. Reinhard Handwerker wrote, > Indeed, one could go a step further and introduce (?) a symbol for divorced: > Either one of the following offers itself as a candidate: > U+29DC INCOMPLETE INFINITY > U+29DE INFINITY NEGATED WITH VERTICAL BAR How about U+238C ? Best regards, James Kass .

RE: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread Handwerker, Reinhard (ISS Atlanta)
ling List Cc: Werner LEMBERG Subject: Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign Werner LEMBERG wrote: > At least in Germany it is quite common to indicate the birth year with > a leading black five-pointed star and the death year with a leading > cross, resembling a dagg

Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign

2003-02-23 Thread Doug Ewell
Werner LEMBERG wrote: > At least in Germany it is quite common to indicate the birth year with > a leading black five-pointed star and the death year with a leading > cross, resembling a dagger. Similarly, the year of marriage is > depicted as two intertwined circles. How will this be represent