From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 3971
Date: 2005-01-16
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:14:41 -0000, Richard Wordinghamand 'invisible
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > However, although it has 'invisible times' U+2062
> > separator' U+2063, there is no mechanism for forming subscripts!Nevertheless,
>
> Well, humans defined it, and they can have human weaknesses.
> I found Unicode quite inspiring when I first studied it. The songon the
> CD in the 3.0 book is really quite lovely, btw.I think the point is that you are supposed to use mark-up for the
>
> > The use of subscript digits in XML documents 'is discouraged'.
>
> Disgusting. Are XML and chemical formulae mutually exclusive?
> > Unicode for Maths is discussed athttp://www.unicode.org/reports/tr25/ .
>write base
> Thanks!
>
> > On the other hand IF your browser/font supports it, you can
> > 10 vulgar fractions to your heart's content - use fractionalslash
> > U+2044! (It failed for IE 6.0, but maybe that's because Iwasn't using
> > the right font.)Confirmed as partly a font problem. The fractional slash displays as