- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 00:02:32 +0100 (MET)
- To: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>, WWW Style List <www-style@w3.org>, WWW HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
On Mar 4, 2:46pm, Carl Morris wrote: > I would like to put the slashes in the zero's > amateurs commonly use. However most fonts on the PC don't include a > slash, not to mention that would limit me to a particular font. Right > I have > thought about using CSS to backup and place the slash over the zero, > not sure that is a great idea though. Nope. You could use U+0337 "combining short solidus overlay" which is a non-spacing diacritical mark (ie it puts a slash through the letter it is next to) > I was wondering if any future > font specification was going to address this. Selection of specific glyphs is a known issue. ther ei s the famous Adobe Poetical font with 57 different ampersands. > Then maybe I could use > something like &szero; in HTML, There isn't a single 'zero with slash' character in unicode, i just looked. Of course the entity could be declared as zero followed by U+0337 > I also kinda wonder what happened to the FONT stuff we all heard so > much about a year ago. It's sitting there being cooked up. Although it wasn't a year ago, more like 9 months. The major outstanding issue is protection of IPR, which needs some fairly intricate solutions. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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