- From: Alan G. Isaac <aisaac@american.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:50:56 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
- CC: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
One more novice question: I finally got around to looking at the list of entities at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html Looking at the mathematical operators, I am very puzzled. There is a perfectly good set of entity names in extremely wide use: the TeX/LaTeX/AMSLaTeX names. Why not simply adopt these rather than inventing new ones? Specific examples: Why ∃ instead of &exists; ? Why ∈ instead of ∈ ? It seems to me that the people most likely to be using these entity names are also most likely to be TeX users. --Alan G. Isaac
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