Re: Superscript and Subscript Characters in General Use

On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 04:48:04 +0100 (CET), I wrote:

> Among the fallbacks discussed so far, this last one could be considered a “hack”.
> This is why it must not be put in the place of *MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q on the
> keyboard layouts. This allocation should still output a message string such as:
> “ ^q_unavailable”, or “ ^q_n’existe_pas” (the maximum number of characters is 16,

Please read 'code units' instead of “characters”.

The polysemics of the underscore is another collateral issue. In the strings above,
its current function of a space replacement mixes up with its possible TeX value.
I wonder whether the LaTeX converter is able to parse that correctly.

Please note, too, that the leading space and the low lines are intended to facilitate
the deletion of the message by hitting Ctrl + Backspace.

> conforming to the Windows limitation; on macOS itʼs practically 20, because with
> a few more, TextEdit on Snow Leopard shuts down, whatever "maxout" is set to).

When that happened, it was set to a higher value. Then Iʼve shortened the output
string and set “maxout="20"”.

Anyhow, this is no longer an issue here, and this shortcoming is mentioned only for
equalityʼs sake.

Marcel
Received on Sun Jan 08 2017 - 05:43:37 CST