25 Jun
2006
25 Jun
'06
7:52 a.m.
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Ambiuity is no good; for luatex and beyond we need to consider using the 2200 unicode block for math mode and not the math-like symbols from the 0000 basic latin block. Then the entire problem goes away. punctuation is punctuation; math symbols are math symbols. In TeX the ambiguity is built in since it apparently maps the ascii punctuation to math, which is anachronstic.
That won't work as well as we'd hope: the math blocks do not contain alternates for the digits and dot, so the ambiguity of 1.2 remains. Taco