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> There is no way to format your text, even stuff that's available since MS Word 1.0, such as bold or italic Are you entirely sure about that?
by jfk13 6y ago
> There is no way to format your text, even stuff that's available since MS Word 1.0, such as bold or italic
Are you entirely sure about that?
- oblio 6y agoOk, now do bold ;-)
- teddyh 6y agoYou mean 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?
- lorenzhs 6y agoʇxǝʇ uʍop ǝpᴉsdn sʇɹoddns uǝʌǝ NH 'uɐǝɯ I
- oblio 6y agoThere is no formatting support for it, it seems you can use Unicode bold formats or something. Doesn't seem approachable or trivial...
- jfk13 6y agoYes, I know people do things like that (mostly on Twitter, it seems), but I wouldn't recommend it; it'll interfere with searchability, copy/paste, etc., and generally make the text less interoperable. The mathematical alphabets in Unicode are intended for specific technical uses where the typeface is an inherent part of the symbol's identity, not for styling normal text.
- kps 6y agoNow try a screen reader (on a mac, Edit > Speech > Start Speaking will do nicely). Spoiler: You mean mathematical sans-serif bold small l, mathematical sans-serif bold small i, mathematical sans-serif bold small k, mathematical sans-serif bold small e, mathematical sans-serif bold small t, mathematical sans-serif bold small h, mathematical sans-serif bold small i, mathematical sans-serif bold small s?
- tshaddox 6y agoIf screen readers do that, why? That seems useless even when those characters are used for their intended purpose.
- kps 6y agoThey're just reading the character name. I don't know of any screen reader that actually makes an attempt to read math reasonably.
- tshaddox 6y agoWhy don’t people point out how terrible screen readers are then, instead of criticizing people posting online who cannot be reasonably expected to stay up to date with Unicode and screen reader functionality?