Stefan Persson <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel at yahoo dot se> wrote: > This program looks good; however, it would be nice if it could convert > e.g. "ä" into "a"+combining diæresis instead of just keeping it in the > normal style. "ä" needs to be supported by mathematical fonts in any > case, as it is often used to indicate d²a/dt² where t represents the > time.
I think support for full decomposition might be a bit overkill for a program that was intended, at least originally, as a complete joke. Another user suggested an option to prepend a U+FEFF signature to the output stream, since Notepad et al. can't recognize a UTF-8 file without one. That seems possible. I see a few people have actually downloaded MathText and tried it out. I thought it would make a better joke to actually implement the thing, complete with UI mini-frills (icons to indicate scripts supported by the chosen style, selectable Unicode 3.x/4.x conversion to SCRIPT SMALL L, etc.) than simply to describe it on a Web page. This was in the same spirit as Michael, Roozbeh, and John's full-blown COMBINING HEART proposal, which was far funnier than if somebody had just mentioned the idea without developing it. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
