- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:21:17 -0600
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Cc: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>, RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
>On 20 Nov 2006, at 17:01, Seaborne, Andy wrote: > >> >> >> >>Kendall Clark wrote: >> >>> Comments: >>> >>> 1. Numbering the sections and subsections will make it easier to >>> refer to (yes, I know this makes moving it into rq24 a matter of some >>> duplication...) >> >>Worse than that - they keep changing! I reordered most of the doc today. >> >>>>4/ Advice on how to typeset squiggly symbols in portable XHTML, >>>FWIW, on F'fox 2.0 on Mac, this looks fine. >> >>Unfortunately, I have only included what I found to be absolutely >>safe (Greek characters). There are more Unicode characters I'd >>like to use but not all browsers display things correctly. FF is >>better than IE (6 and 7) but is hardly complete (why this isn't an >>OS font issue, I don't know). But there are more symbols again >>that would be good that aren't even in Unicode. > >Are you thinking of using the join symbols from relational algebra? >I think it's better as it is, but you could use the ASCII >renderings: "[X]" and "=X]". Blech. Worst of both worlds. >Rho and sigma must be present in unicode. Though, again, I think >it's clearer to write it out. I agree. Mathspeak involving uppercase Greek is compact and neat once you are used to it, but it takes some getting used to. And unless it is really well typeset - an art beyond even the best web browsers, until HTML turns into LATEX - it's hard on the eyes. And none of this stuff is really math-heavy. Pat > >- Steve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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