RE: ZWJ, ZWNJ and VS in Latin and other Greek-derived scripts

From: Murray Sargent (murrays@exchange.microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 16:40:29 CST

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    Richard wrote:

    > Asmus Freytag wrote on Friday, January 26, 2007 6:16 PM

    >> I do want to be able to search for vector 'a'
    >> (bold) as distinct from factor a (italic) in a mathematical text. I
    >> don't care that both are based on the first letter of the Latin
    >> alphabet, so I don't want the search to find the word 'a'.

    > That's a bad example, as they usually are semantically related, e.g. as the
    > vector and its length! An better example would be set 'A' (italic) as
    > opposed to collection 'A' (script).

    OTOH it can be useful to search for a vector and its magnitude separately and it's not worth the AI necessary to divine the user's intent. One could have a check box saying match math italic and math bold, but it probably wouldn't be a popular option.

    Murray

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