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I just want to say, I absolutely love that you used a whole bunch of unicode characters for math. I'm not sure I've ever actually seen someone use the superscri

by eridius 10y ago

I just want to say, I absolutely love that you used a whole bunch of unicode characters for math. I'm not sure I've ever actually seen someone use the superscript characters in a legitimate context (well, beyond my own very occasional usage). And you even threw in stuff like U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN (×)! As a side note, if anybody here is on OS X and wants to be able to type these characters, years ago I wrote a DefaultKeyBinding.dict file that adds bindings for these and a lot more (including the greek alphabet). You can see the file at https://gist.github.com/kballard/7584246fa5d5fcb684e996ff0957965a https://gist.github.com/kballard/7584246fa5d5fcb684e996ff095..., and if you want to use it, just put this in ~/Library/KeyBindings with the name DefaultKeyBinding.dict. Any running apps may have to be restarted to notice this.

LukeShu 10y ago
To be honest, the only reason I used × was that it was easier than figuring out how to make HN not treat asterisk as italic!
Pxtl 10y ago
Speaking of, I know it's way out of scope for Unicode, but am I the only one that is sad that Unicode only provides the symbols for math and not the layout? The poor standardization of mathematical formulae in various document editors is a constant frustration. You can happily move Word documents to Google Docs, but all the formulas vanish because there are a zillion standards for formulas and all of them are terrible.
- reacweb 10y ago
  I know many math teachers who are using latex because there was too many problems with word (bad editor and incompatibilities with previous versions with no upgrade path).
- witty_username 10y ago
  Latex works across many websites. There's an extension for Google Docs for Latex BTW.
- chronial 10y ago
  Good news, that standard actually exists: http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf

by eridius 10y ago

LukeShu 10y ago

To be honest, the only reason I used × was that it was easier than figuring out how to make HN not treat asterisk as italic!

Pxtl 10y ago

Speaking of, I know it's way out of scope for Unicode, but am I the only one that is sad that Unicode only provides the symbols for math and not the layout? The poor standardization of mathematical formulae in various document editors is a constant frustration. You can happily move Word documents to Google Docs, but all the formulas vanish because there are a zillion standards for formulas and all of them are terrible.

reacweb 10y ago
I know many math teachers who are using latex because there was too many problems with word (bad editor and incompatibilities with previous versions with no upgrade path).
witty_username 10y ago
Latex works across many websites. There's an extension for Google Docs for Latex BTW.
chronial 10y ago
Good news, that standard actually exists: http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf