From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 00:43:50 EDT
Doug,
Doug Ewell wrote:
> Second, in trying to answer Cristina's question, some of us fell into
> the trap once again of assuming that all text is fancy text, or can be
> shoehorned into a fancy-text model. This is simply not true. Not every
> text problem can be solved with markup, nor should it. A superscripted
> MR is not the same as an unsuperscripted MR "except for presentation
> formatting." At the least, we should ask before assuming that the text
> in question is HTML or XML.
Naahhh. Given that superscript-MR is not in Unicode, and that
superscript is easily done in markup, and without any other context, it
was a reasonable suggestion, and if it doesn't apply, the questioner can
come back for more, as happened. Markup wasn't suggested as the only
solution just a way to go.
Asking, would have potentially delayed things. And now here we are with
nothing better than the suggestion to use the registration symbol
anyway...
tex
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