Re: More mathvariants

> Hi Simon,
> 
> > My concern is that there may be authors who wish to use both normal and
> > italic double-struck characters in a single publication with different
> > semantic meaning. That is now not possible. Our line will be that we will
> > try to persuade authors to pick their variants from the set provided by
> > mathml. We will see how far we get with that.

One caution you should give to your authors -- the more esoteric the
symbol they use, the less likely other software will support it.
Currently, I don't think either MathPlayer or Mozilla or Mathematica
have italic double-struck characters.  Apparently, the STIX group didn't find
much use of them, otherwise they would have been in their proposal to
the Unicode Technical Committee.

Neil Soiffer					 email: neils@dessci.com            
Senior Scientist                 phone: 562-433-0685            
Design Science, Inc.             http://www.dessci.com

Received on Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:04:39 UTC