- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 12:04:08 -0500
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
David Carlisle in part:
> Syntax to be determined but something in the style of the existing
> <surrogate mathvariant="bold" ref="U00041"/>
> which maps the "holes" in the math alphabet blocks to the equivalent
> bmp character.
The holes in the math alphabet blocks represent missing *characters*
in those blocks. There are no equivalent BMP *characters*, so one is
just borrowing *glyphs* from sporadic BMP characters, each of which arose
earlier in the history of unicode for one or more special intentions.
-- Bill
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