Re: Update to unicode.xml

On 05/09/2014 15:33, Frédéric WANG wrote:
> Le 03/07/2014 15:53, David Carlisle a écrit :
>> Oh Ok that's simpler: don't fix the names in the file just mark then
>> as set="historical"
>> OK good plan!
> Is there any update on this or a plan to lead to reliable set of LaTeX
> mappings (in the last version of unicode.xml I still see some of the
> errors I initially reported and no set="historical") ? As I see, the
> unicode-math names are not really "standard" (whatever it means for
> LaTeX), for example "GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA" is mapped by "\upalpha"
> instead of the more traditional "\alpha". Just marking the legacy
> mappings "historical" without fixing the errors, will not be very
> helpful for someone willing to rely on this set.
>

ah I'll see what I can do....

Although it really isn't so clear in a unicode setting that saying
U+03B1 is traditionally mapped as \alpha really helps.
U+03B1 is (as you know) textual Greek, and mapping it to \alpha
with the traditional definition of \alpha will just lead to tex errors.
Perhaps I can document that if the character element has mode="math" 
then the <latex> mapping is only assumed to work in math mode.

But in anycase the errors you reported initially were just errors
I think not relying on such details, I'll try to get that done.....


David

Received on Friday, 5 September 2014 14:45:20 UTC