- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:42:10 -0400
- To: W3C MathML Development Discussion <www-math@w3.org>
Robert Miner <RobertM@dessci.com> writes: > Other experts will correctly me if I'm wrong, but my memory is that > Unicode doesn't acknowledge these as separate character. Instead, they > are regarded a "glyph variants" of the same character, and thus they > do not get separate code points. > . . . > Consequently, apart from the inherently fragile <mglyph> construct, > there is no good way to distiguish these characters within MathML. Specific things that are important enough to trigger such discussion here could be made non-fragile if they had existence in MathML as empty elements. A few examples suggested by LaTeX include <leftarrow/>, <longleftarrow/>, <rightarrow/>, <longrightarrow/>, <mapsto/>, and <longmapsto/>. I don't imagine more than a few hundred of such empties. -- Bill
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