- From: Roger B. Sidje <rbs@maths.uq.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:10:19 +1000
- To: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- CC: davidc@nag.co.uk, www-math@w3.org
"William F. Hammond" wrote: > > In particular, the use of empties is not a substitute for > "mchar", which is still needed as new symbols are coined. The <mchar> tag simply provides a mapping to existing characters (or Unicode points). It doesn't cater for new symbols. I guess you are looking for <mglyph>. This one is going to be a really useful tag for new symbols, if it is used correctly, and if font designers play by the rules (otherwise we may run into problems like with TeX fonts which have different encoding indices depending on the platform). > I don't think that it is a good idea to let design be held up with > these particular fears about cpu load. (Just think about how this > cpu issue would have been assessed in 1990.) There is more to this than just CPU. Deprecating entities means they are going to be obsoleted/removed in the next versions. So some of us want to understand the issues and appreciate the explanations of the thoughts that are going on in the WG. --- RBS
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