[Dev-luatex] [NTG-context] arab (omega)

[Hans Hagen]

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:25:37 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid  
> <ishamid at colostate.edu> wrote:
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>> If we get rid of those exceptions the separator problem will go away. But
>> then math will be messed up. The problem is that the
>>
>> + - .
>>
>> are ambiguous; sometimes they have a mathematical significance; sometimes
>> a separator significance. We need the exception for math (generally done
>> the usual l-r way) but don't need it for separators (done in the r-l  
>> way).
>>     
>
> 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.
>   
even then, an input language may use + and -; many math things in the unicode blocks may as well be presentational 

we should accept that multiple parsers are needed: 

some english some arab some english some math .... 

explicit switched of (parsing) state are needed; you cannot rely on unicode to handle that, 

Hans 


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