[projectaon] Re: Highway Holocaust XML Changes
- From: Jonathan Blake <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:22:24 -0800
On 11/29/05, Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:50, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> > On 11/29/05, Iain Smith <iainsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 3) The instances of 1/16 were recommended to be replaced by a
> > > single character, however I don't think you can get 1/16 in the
> > > ASCII charset (I've only seen up to 1/8).
> >
> > The ISO-8859-1 character set only defines characters for 1/4, 1/2,
> > and 3/4. Unicode has better facilities, but we're not yet using a
> > Unicode encoding
>
> I doubt there's 1/16 in Unicode.
There is a code to make custom fraction. Who knows if it would work on
any browsers? I haven't tested.
> > (still waiting for the time to create the
> > super-dooper, ultra-modern, XHTML/CSS/PNG/UTF8/JavaScript editions).
>
> You forgot MathML (for the "1/16"). :-)
>
> A possible hack would be <sup>1</sup>/<sub>16</sub>, but on it's own it
> doesn't really look that good. Maybe, if it's surrounded by text (that
> is, if that's actually the case in HH)? Anyway, this should be put in
> some XSLT magic so that we can create a real fraction in the LaTeX
> version.
While I'm messing around with the XSLT, I'll add in a "frac116"
element to the DTD and XSL.
--
Jon
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