Unicode Technical Note #28

Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics

Version	3.1
Authors	Murray Sargent III
Date	November 16, 2016
This Version	http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/tn28-4.html
Previous Version	http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/tn28-3.html
Latest Version	http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/

Summary

This document provides describes a format for lightly marked-up representation of mathematical expressions in Unicode.

Status

This document is a Unicode Technical Note. Sole responsibility for its contents rests with the author(s). Publication does not imply any endorsement by the Unicode Consortium. This document is not subject to the Unicode Patent Policy.

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Contents

The body of this note is contained in the file "UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1.pdf".

Modification History

Version 3.1: Mostly a refining of Version 3.0, bringing a number of topics up to date and using the name UnicodeMath instead of Unicode linear format.

Version 3: Updated to discuss features implemented in the Microsoft Office 2010 applications, see the document for details.

Version 2: Updated the linear format and made a number of corrections, including reference to the Bertrand Russell quote.

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