- From: Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:43:09 -0600
- To: shane@aptest.com
- Cc: w3c-html-wg@w3.org, voyager-issues@mn.aptest.com, www-math@w3.org, Max Froumentin <mf@w3.org>
At 08:34 2002-07-15 -0500, Shane P. McCarron wrote: >sburke@cpan.org wrote: > > In http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-symbol.ent you have: > > <!ENTITY sum "∑"> <!-- n-ary sumation, U+2211 ISOamsb --> > > ^^^^^^^^ > > My OED says that "sumation" is an obsolete (as of like 1850 or so!) variant > > spelling of "summation".[...] >Thanks for this comment. We are in the process of releasing an updated >XHTML 1, and will try to include this in that revision. Excellent! I'd also suggest improving the description for ϖ. Currently it's just "greek pi symbol", which could be misunderstood to mean just the normal letter pi, when used as a symbol (like for 3.14159...). Besides just noting that that's not the case, a usage note might be useful. I've been asking around to see if a main use of it can be summed up briefly ("Pajamatantrum's constant" or something), but am not having much luck at a short note. Suggestions, anyone? I'll CC some people who might have smart things to say. -- Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
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