Re: Geological symbols

2020-01-14 Thread Hans Ã…berg via Unicode
For rendering, you might have a look at ConTeXt, because I recall it has an option whereby Unicode super- and sub-scripts can be displayed over each other without extra processing. > On 14 Jan 2020, at 06:44, via Unicode wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I think actually LaTeX is not a good o

Re: New Unicode Working Group: Message Formatting

2020-01-14 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
The reply from Mr Verdy has indeed been helpful, as indeed has also been an offlist private reply from someone who has, thus far, not been a participant in this thread. Mr Verdy wrote: You seem to have never seen how translation packages work and are used in common projects (not just CLDR,

Re: New Unicode Working Group: Message Formatting

2020-01-14 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe via Unicode
William, this is off the Unicode list. See http://mathreader.livejournal.com/9239.html for a list of 207 variants of Chebyshev's name. --- - Nelson H. F. BeebeTel: +1 801 581 5254

Re: how to make custom combining diacritical marks for arabic letters?

2020-01-14 Thread Lorna Evans via Unicode
What are the combining marks supposed to look like? Are they your creation or do you have samples of usage? It is true that you will not likely get combining marks to work if either they or the base character are PUA. Adding the complexity of RTL makes the issue worse. Lorna On 1/10/2020 12:3

Re: New Unicode Working Group: Message Formatting

2020-01-14 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
People name are NOT transliterated freely. It's up to each person to document his romanized name, it should not be invented by automatic processes. And frequently the romanized name (officialized) does noit match the original name in another script: this is very frequent for Chinese people, as well