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

2003-02-24 Thread Handwerker, Reinhard (ISS Atlanta)
Subject: Re: symbols for `born' and `died' + guarani sign Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu dot org 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

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)
] 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 introduce (?) a symbol for divorced

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 VERTICAL BAR

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 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 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 inline: married.png

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

2003-02-23 Thread Doug Ewell
Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu dot org 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