From: Kent Karlsson (kent.karlsson14@comhem.se)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2005 - 17:28:58 CST
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Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> The use of subscript and superscript characters is surely limited
> by many factors, including
...
> Yet, within their limitations, they do a fine job. You can use
> them in many contexts where formatting, styles, or markup cannot
> be used, or should not be used.
And also in some cases also where markup IS used. E.g., for m³, kW/m²
(or kW⋅m⁻², though it may be cautious to use MIDDLE DOT rather
than DOT OPERATOR), etc. I think it would be a bad idea to use markup
for these unit "name" expressions, even though that would be better
for general math expressions (including for "style" expressed difference
in identifiers/variables; e.g. <mi>v</mi> for an "italic" v, <mf>v</mf>
for a "fraktur" v, etc., and <mr>cos</mr> for "plain" cos, rather than
using the "math alphanumerics" characters).
/kent k
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