Subject: Re: Character entity mapping From: Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:39:14 -0400 |
[Tony Graham] > Personally, I contend that α should come from the Symbol font, > and &agr; is what you should use if you want an alpha that looks > like ordinary text (i.e. from the Greek code page). I agree, but unfortunately, ISO/IEC 10646 doesn't have different code points for mathematical and linguistic Greek: geode-5> grep -i alpha iso10646.txt <A%> /x03/x86 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS <A*> /x03/x91 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA <a%> /x03/xac GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS <a*> /x03/xb1 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA Since DSSSL uses 10646 as its internal character model, I don't think there's a way to differentiate between the two characters without registering a new character. Given 10646's limitations in the technical areas, I think JaDE is doing the best it can. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <FAX>+1.617.661.1116 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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