On 07/27/2000 02:12:20 PM John Cowan wrote:
>> The line gets drawn somewhere, and
>> there's a very strong consensus that Unicode is right in not having
>> abstract characters to denote things like bold and italic.
>
>Except in math symbols, where Unicode will soon acquire them. In
>math, _sin_ would be the product of _s_, _i_, and _n_, whereas
>non-italic "sin" stands for "sine".
No, that is precisely what *didn't* happen for math symbols: we didn't get
characters that mean "make the previous character bold" (i.e. modifiers
with unrestricted application - which is what it seems Robert asked about);
rather, we got specific characters math_symbol_a-bold, math_symbol_b-bold,
etc. (so we can't encode latin_a-bold, telugu_kha-bold, katakana_be-bold,
etc.). Subtle distinctions, perhaps, but important.
- Peter
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