From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 16:56:37 CST
On 1/9/2006 8:54 AM, Markus Scherer wrote:
>What would a character achieve here that a tiny graphic (with alt text
>like "external") can't?
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Just to mention,
1) you would be able to cut/paste this information more reliably
2) you would be able to search for it
3) you would be able to scale the symbol with the text
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>Its look and feel would still depend on the (font) designer,
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the salient argument in favor of such symbols is not their uniforimity
in appearance, but their
semantics. Just because HTML easily accommodates inline graphics does
not mean that
new notational conventions must only be realized in that way.
After all, TeX gives great freedom in cobbling up specialized symbols,
but we keep adding
math symbols (and phonetic symbols) to the standard, because they are no
less characters
than what's already encoded.
This does not try to make a complete case, just to answer your specific
objections.
A./
>and you
>would have to wait for a few years to get it through committees and
>into popular fonts.
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>markus
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