Re: Mathematical glyph variants in Plane1

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx wrote on 2000-08-09 12:06 UTC:
> Since there is no well-known semantics associated to the use
> of fonts in mathematics, giving font information in
> Altavista searches will be of limited use.

But for grep searches within a single book or paper, it might be of good
use. I know, it is dubios territory and brings us close to the
much-hated ANGSTROM and KELVIN SIGN. I have just read a preprint of an
interesting paper by Barbara Beeton (AMS) on "Unicode for Maths" that
will be presented at the TeX Users Group conference next week in Oxford
(the editor of the proceedings sits next door and just gave me a draft
copy). It might show up soon on the STIX site <http://www.ams.org/STIX/>
and describes the current status of the proposal. In essence, the
symbols proposal for Plane 0 and the mathematical alphanumeric
characters in Plane 1 are now separate submissions to UTC and JTC1. The
first one has already been accepted and will add ~500 new mathematical
operators and symbols to the BMP in various new and old U+2xxx ranges.
The second one was a bit more controversial but has informally also been
accepted and will go through the formal UTC and JTC1 voting procedures
this fall, so there is still a chance that it might be shot down. I
personally am not quite as opposed to it as some others here.

Markus

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