From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/239 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Burnus Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: [Fwd: help needed -- adding math symbols to Unicode] Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:02:32 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <363A0D47.95C3CF09@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391105 22345 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: NTG-ConTeXt Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:239 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:239 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, since ConTeXt is going to have a AMS module I thought it might be usefull to forward this. To become really usefull, we only need a context2xml converter. BTW: Is there any xml2eps converter available? More and more programs start to use this as file format (e.g. KOffice of KDE). Tobias Return-path: owner-tex-d-l@listserv.gmd.de X-pop3-spooler: POP3MAIL 2.1.0 b 4 980420 -bs- Received: from mx2.gmx.net (mx2.gmx.net [195.63.104.140]:14487) by binky.de.uu.net with SMTP (5.65+:003/3.0.2) for id XAA24159; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:31:37 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 20165 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 1998 22:30:24 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to burnus@gmx.net Received: (qmail 20102 invoked by uid 0); 29 Oct 1998 22:30:19 -0000 Received: from listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.1) by mx2.gmx.net with SMTP; 29 Oct 1998 22:30:19 -0000 Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.966F4F60@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:30:33 +0100 Received: from LISTSERV.GMD.DE by LISTSERV.GMD.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 7582751 for TEX-D-L@LISTSERV.GMD.DE; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:30:28 +0100 Received: from math.ams.org (130.44.210.14) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.8F2897E8@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:30:21 +0100 Received: from sun06.ams.org by math.ams.org via smtpd (for listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) with SMTP; 29 Oct 1998 22:30:15 UT Received: from localhost by sun06.ams.org (PMDF V5.1-10 #27147) with SMTP id <0F1M00E01161TT@sun06.ams.org> for TEX-D-L@LISTSERV.GMD.DE; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:30:01 -0500 (EST) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:30:01 -0500 Reply-To: German Language TeX Users Group Communication List Sender: German Language TeX Users Group Communication List From: Barbara Beeton Subject: help needed -- adding math symbols to Unicode To: TEX-D-L@LISTSERV.GMD.DE X-Resent-By: Global Message Exchange X-Resent-For: burnus@gmx.net X-Resent-To: tobias.burnus@uumail.de X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 The complement of math symbols included in Unicode is insufficient to publish "real" mathematics on the Web, even if browser support were available. However, with XML gaining ground, the latter seems to be just a matter of time. At the American Math Society, we have been trying to tackle the first problem -- will the symbols be ready when the browsers are -- and we have now collected several hundred symbols not recognized by Unicode that we will propose to be added. However, we don't know how all of these symbols are used, or what they mean, and we're asking for help. The Web page http://www.ams.org/STIX/glyphs/proposal/newsub/challenge.html contains a selection of these symbols along with questions about them and a list of the information we need in order to convince the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC). If you are familiar with the notation used in scientific publishing -- perhaps you're an author who has written journal articles or books in math or some related field -- please take a look at this site and see if you can help. The UTC meets the first week of December. We must have all documentation by November 20 in order to prepare our presentation. The selection of symbols will change weekly until our deadline, so please plan to visit the site every week through November 20. -- barbara beeton