Re: Characters consisting of vertical lines; Possible attempts to encode tally marks

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 12:13:20 CST

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    On 2/28/2007 8:33 AM, Asmus Freytag wrote:
    > On 2/27/2007 4:32 PM, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
    >> ....
    > barbara beeton from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) pointed
    > out offline that item 1 has got the wrong distribution for a and b.
    >> here's what it ought to be:
    >>
    >> a.) U+007C VERTICAL LINE (1 line)
    >> U+2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (2 lines)
    >> U+2AF4 TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER (3 lines)
    The code point and name in Karl's original message do not correspond,
    what is meant is U+2980 TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER and the character
    at U+2AF4 is named TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR BINARY RELATION and is part of
    the second set. U+2AFC is the N-ARY operator. (There are no n-ary
    operators, it appears for 'divides' and 'parallel to').
    >> b.) U+2223 DIVIDES (1 line)
    >> U+2225 PARALLEL TO (2 lines)
    >> U+2AFC LARGE TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR OPERATOR (3 lines)
    >>
    >> the items in a are used for delimiters or
    >> fenceposts, as in
    >> |x|, ||x||, |||x||| or < a | b >
    >> in mathematical layout they increase in size as the expression gets
    >> taller.
    >>
    >> the items in b are operators, always between
    >> two elements, as in
    >> x | y, x || y, or x ||| y
    >> actually, they too should be able to get
    >> taller if the elements they're between happen
    >> to be something like fractions, but the meaning
    >> and spacing are quite different from the others
    A./



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