A. Administrative

1. Title

Mathematical brace pieces

2. Requester's name

Murray Sargent III

3. Requester type

Expert request.

4. Submission date

1998-12-01

5. Requester’s reference

Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX)

6a. Completion

Complete proposal

6b. More information to be provided?

If requested

B. Technical -- General

1a. New script? Name?

No.

1b. Addition of characters to existing block? Name?

Miscellaneous technical

2. Number of characters

18

3. Proposed category

4. Proposed level of implementation and rationale

Level 3; requires simple 2D display

5a. Character names included in proposal?

Yes.

5b. Character names in accordance with guidelines?

Yes.

5c. Character shapes reviewable?

6a. Who will provide computerized font?

Microsoft Symbol font

6b. Font currently available?

Microsoft Symbol font

6c. Font format?

TrueType

7a. Are references (to other character sets, dictionaries, descriptive texts, etc.) provided?

Yes.

7b. Are published examples (such as samples from newspapers, magazines, or other sources) of use of proposed characters attached?

No

8. Does the proposal address other aspects of character data processing?

No

C. Technical -- Justification

1. Contact with the user community?

Yes. Barbara Beeton, Murray Sargent III, Don Carroll

2. Information on the user community?

Mathematical software

3a. The context of use for the proposed characters?

Used in publication of research mathematics and other hard sciences.

3b. Reference

4a. Proposed characters in current use?

Yes.

4b. Where?

Worldwide, by scientific and technical publishers, technical word processing programs

5a. Characters should be encoded entirely in BMP?

Yes.

5b. Rationale

Accurate publication of mathematical and scientific research on the Web is impossible without a comprehensive and accurate collection of symbols including various alphabetic variants in common use. Allocation in the BMP is in accordance with the Roadmap.

6. Should characters be kept in a continuous range?

Yes

7a. Can the characters be considered a presentation form of an existing character or character sequence?

No.

7b. Where?

7c. Reference

8a. Can any of the characters be considered to be similar (in appearance or function) to an existing character?

Yes

8b. Where?

The characters are used to create large forms of existing brackets, braces, parentheses, and integrals

8c. Reference

9a. Combining characters or use of composite sequences included?

Yes

9b. List of composite sequences and their corresponding glyph images provided?

na

10. Characters with any special properties such as control function, etc. included?

No

D. SC2/WG2 Administrative

To be completed by SC2/WG2

1. Relevant SC 2/WG 2 document numbers:

2. Status (list of meeting number and corresponding action or disposition)

3. Additional contact to user communities, liaison organizations etc.

4. Assigned category and assigned priority/time frame

Other Comments