On the matter of my document proposing using Variation Selector 14 for
requesting an italic glyph for a letter, Unicode Inc. has also published
a Notice of Non-Approval.
https://www.unicode.org/alloc/nonapprovals.html
It is indeed interesting that the Notice of Non-Approval itself uses
italics for emphasis in two places.
That text, at the present time, cannot be expressed in Unicode plain
text with the emphasis that the Notice of Non-Approval includes.
Readers of my two original documents on the topic may like to observe
that I did not in any way suggest that the specialised italic characters
for some mathematical uses are a precedent for the proposal that I
submitted.
Here is a link to a PDF (Portable Document Format) document produced
earlier today of a song that I wrote earlier this year that mentions
italics.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/a_song_of_typography.pdf
I still consider that the proposal is a good idea, but the decision has
been emphatically made, so I have moved on.
William Overington
Friday 20 December 2019
