David Carlisle wrote - > Introducing incompatible syntax for functionality shared across Unicode TeX > extensions > is a major headache for package authors. Please don't use this syntax!
Understood. > That isn't at all clear, I don't see any evidence that the equivalent &#....; > notation in XML is getting less used. For runs of natural language text then > clearly using character data directly makes more sense > but to get specific symbols accessing by code point often makes sense. > > To get a math bold A, It is much easier to tell someone to enter ^^^^^1d400 > than to tell them how > to enter 𝐀 in whatever system they are using. Of course, every Unicode reference on the web would be referring to it as U+1D4000. Sigh. Anyway, duly noted. Except in the future, "whatever system they are using" will likely be able to handle the UTF-8 character as direct input, just like it appears (in my email reader) above as a math bold A. Thanks. Doug McKenna -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
