At 13:32 -0500 2002-01-19, DougEwell2@cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 2002-01-19 9:33:46 Pacific Standard Time,
>palais@math.utah.edu writes:
>
>>> Has there been any consideration of practical alternatives, such as
>>>selecting a lookalike or similar character from the plethora of those
>>>already encoded and promoting its use to represent the "newpi"
>>> character?
>>
>> My own proposal was a pictogram: A circle with a radius to "3 o'clock",
>> i.e. from 0 to 1 in the complex number plane. Pacman with mouth closed.
>> Does that already exist in Unicode? :-) My dad's version is a lot more
>> palatable for most people.
>
>A large number of glyphic variations of Latin and Greek letters were just
>added to Unicode 3.1 with the sole purpose of serving as mathematical
>identifiers. Apparently it was stressed by the AMS and others that these
>variations (bold, italic, double-struck, sans serif, etc.) are all
>significant and distinct in math notation. Could one of these characters,
>already approved and part of Unicode, be adopted to represent 2pi?
That's up the the AMS, not to us.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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