Re: ISO entities for HTML 2.+

• From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@hal.com>
• Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 16:08:28 -0600
• To: terry@ora.com
• Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
• Message-Id: <9412122208.AA05490@ulua.hal.com>

In message <199412122159.NAA27615@rock>, Terry Allen writes:
>Murray writes:
>>I have 
>before, and will now again, suggest that some or all of the entity
>sets listed in the SGML standard should be specified in HTML and
>supported by user agents.
>
>I'll add that I find the Numeric and Special Graphic and
>the Publishing sets so useful as to be almost necessary.  For
>convenience I append the copies I have.


Now... if somebody would just complete the proposal by suggesting
how support for these entities should be implemented on X, Windows,
and Mac platforms.

Is a simple mapping of frac12 to "1/2" good enough, or should
platform-specific glyphs be used?

Dan

Received on Monday, 12 December 1994 23:15:52 UTC