- From: Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:47:38 +0200
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:17:02 +1300, Matthew Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote: <...> > Except that "sub" is merely (an abbreviation of) a description of the > typographical presentation! You might just as well say that H<font > color="green">2</font>O is semantic because it could be pronounced as > "H green-two O". I cannot agree. We should not mix typographical presentation for presentation sake and typographical presentation for semantic reason. While it may be not a big deal in chemistry, it is not so in math. Or is E=mc2 same as E=mc<sup>2</sup>? Do log4nm and log<sub>4</sub>n<sup>m</sup> differ? Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/
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