Re: Delimiters <-- Re: IIT (Madras) point of view

i18n@... wrote:

> > > So you are referring to the glyphs in particular fonts as opposed to the
> > > abstract characters themselves?
> >
> > What is an "abstract character"?
>
> Well, a brief way to describe it (since you mentioned you are not
> interested in learning about encodings) is "that which is represented by
> the glyph".
>
> E.g. the concept of "the letter A" as opposed to the glyph on a page
> that represents the letter A.
>
> Maybe when you said "The closest we have to real angle brackets in standard
> fonts is single-guillemets" what you meant was "I consider the glyphs
> for single-guillemets in standard fonts to be a closer substitute then
> the glyphs for the less-than/greater-than brackets for the glyphs that
> are not present for angle brackets"?

What is "the concept of 'the letter A'"?

How is your paraphrase any different, aside from excessive wordiness,
from what I said? If you haven't got a character, you make do,
unsatisfactorily, with something similar.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...