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Randy Barry is out of town until October 28 (in Russia, I think).



On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Daniel Pitti wrote:

> Richard,
>
> The expert on character sets on the list is Randy Barry at the Library of
> Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office, and so I hope he
> steps in to offer an authoritative answer.
>
> What follows is a non-expert view.
>
> As it stands, eadchars.ent does not reference "ISO 8879-1986//ENTITIES
> Numeric and Special Graphic//EN", which might satisfy your present need.
> Perhaps we should discuss its inclusion.
>
> As a matter of principle, I believe our objective should be to come up
> with an authoritative answer for the character entity representation,
> whether or not Panorama supports it at the moment, i.e., we should aim for
> uniform practice in order to make the ead instances interchangeable.
> Screen representation depends on software having an entity set resident,
> recognizing it, and having the correct font for the character and a map
> from character entity to the font.
>
> We might also want to seek the advice of Peter Goldie of Lightbinders
> Publishing in San Francisco, who has detailed knowledge of SGML and the
> representation of mathematical formulae. Terry Allen of O'Reilly &
> Associates, who is known to eavesdrop, also has expertise in this area,
> if memory serves me correctly.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, R I Higgins wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > I hope this will be the last problem caused by this part of my current
> > list (papers containing calculations regarding the
> > satellites of Jupiter - you get to travel the universe in the world of list encoding).
> >
> > Is there an entity for the square root sign (US 437 Character set, #251) amongst the ISO symbol sets -
> > the closest I have found is ✓ - a tick, but this doesn't show up in my current configuration of
> > Panorama PRO. (It isn't □ □ or ▪, all of which are graphic squares, either).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Richard Higgins
> > Durham University Library.
> >
>

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