Hi everyone!
Although everyone loves the regular TV program, it seems that we require
another commercial break to announce our UX workshop :-)
After the initial announcement [1], a second blog posting [2], a status
update by Frank [3] the current result is, that we don't have any
official
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Just as with quotation marks, Unicode is trying to undo confusion
introduced by cost-saving measures applied to Victorian typewriters. (I
have seen people -- usually in their late 50's or older -- who will, if
not stopped, use lower-case L instead of the digit one and
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Just as with quotation marks, Unicode is trying to undo confusion
introduced by cost-saving measures applied to Victorian typewriters.
(I have seen people -- usually in their late 50's or older -- who
will, if not stopped, use lower-case L instead of the
Chris BONDE wrote:
My super- and sub scripting was done by turning the platten a wee bit.
Not that very consistent tho.
That's why, even in the typebar generation, professional typewriters had
half-stops on the platen. But, of course, you need a bit more to get the
miniature type --
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple do
not break character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document
full of Mr. Sh and the like (actually, that's
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
No, it's a hyphen.
U+002D (hyphen/minus) short
U+2010 (true hyphen)short
U+2011 (non-breaking hyphen)short
U+2012 (en-dash)long
U+2013 (em-dash)longer
U+2014 (horizontal bar) longest
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple do not break
character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document full of
Mr. Sh and the like (actually, that's two em dashes), and I can
find absolutely no way to prevent
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple do not
break character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document full of
Mr. Sh and the like (actually, that's two em dashes), and I can
find absolutely
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple do not
break character attribute?
[snip]
Has an issue been filed? I would vote for it. It couldn't show up until
v 2.1 at the earliest, but the
