From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 08:10:24 EDT
On Fri, 9 May 2003, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Shaun Dippnall wrote:
> > 1. There are a few symbols that the unicode does not
> > provide.
>
> It is probable that the symbols are where you didn't expect to find them
> (not all mathematical symbols are in the "Mathematical Symbols" block), or
> > I see that there is a Private Area - can I use this to
> > create a few symbols of my own, and, if so, how do I do
> You can do whatever you want with the Private Use Area, but you also have to
> invent *how* to do it. It is so "private", that there are almost no rules or
> guidelines for its use.
For both questions, you may also find some useful information at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml especially because you're
writting a mathematical program. Instead of making your own fonts
and convinving users to use them, you may consider existing fonts
for mathematical programs and rendering / typesetting (AMS TeX Computer
Roman Type1 or TeX CM TTFs from Bakoma, Adobe Symbol font, Wolfram's
Mathematica fonts etc) as long as their licenses allow such a use.
Jungshik
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