Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

I missed this yesterday. Plug Gulp wrote: > General support for all characters, words and sentences could be > achieved by just three new formatting characters, e.g. SCR, SUP and > SUB, similar to the way other formatting characters such as ZWS, ZWJ, > ZWNJ etc are defined. The new formatting

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

2015-12-16 19:16 GMT+01:00 Doug Ewell : > The ones you suggest are stateful; they affect the rendering of > arbitrary amounts of subsequent data, in a way reminiscent of ECMA-48 > ("ANSI") attribute switching, or ISO 2022 character-set switching. > Unicode tries hard to avoid

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

Plug Gulp wrote: > It will help if Unicode standard itself intrinsically supports > generalised subscript/superscript text. This falls outside the scope of "plain text" as defined by Unicode, in much the same way as bold and italic styles and colors and font faces and sizes. There are several

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

Does the standard support the use of diacritics in plain text format, when used with all and any complex scripts? Regards Sinnathurai > > On 15 December 2015 at 17:46 Doug Ewell wrote: > > > Plug Gulp wrote: > > > It will help if Unicode standard itself

RE: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

srivas sinnathurai wrote: > Does the standard support the use of diacritics in plain text format, > when used with all and any complex scripts? It probably depends on what you mean by "support" and "diacritics." I can type a Tamil letter followed by a combining acute accent or diaeresis, and in

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Martin J. Dürst wrote: > > I suggest using HTML: > > बक ्ष > This will work only if the end-users are always going to use a web browser to view the text content. It will help if Unicode standard itself intrinsically supports generalised

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:00:16 + (GMT) srivas sinnathurai wrote: > Does the standard support the use of diacritics in plain text format, > when used with all and any complex scripts? Relatively few scalar value sequences are prohibited - just possibly sequences

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:55:02AM +, Plug Gulp wrote: > Please note that the teacher had to use a Circumflex Accent (Caret) to > indicate superscript, which is an unwritten convention, in the absence > of proper superscript support within Unicode. If the teacher is explaining actual math to

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 03:24:39 + Plug Gulp wrote: > I am trying to understand if there is a way to use Devanagari > characters (and grapheme clusters) as subscript and/or superscript in > unicode text. Why do you want to do this? Are you asking about writing Devanagari

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 03:24:39 + Plug Gulp wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand if there is a way to use Devanagari > characters (and grapheme clusters) as subscript and/or superscript in > unicode text. The view is that such would not be 'plain text', and therefore

Re: Devanagari and Subscript and Superscript

Hello Plug, I suggest using HTML: बक ्ष Regards, Martin. On 2015/12/09 12:24, Plug Gulp wrote: Hi, I am trying to understand if there is a way to use Devanagari characters (and grapheme clusters) as subscript and/or superscript in unicode text. It will help if someone could please direct