From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 10:18:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-14e351ff-b63c-4d50-b229-91d91e94167b-1621844336179@3c-app-mailcom-bs09> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8XnhVUzFTjwK2NKt817p9THNNtvmhd1SCxFn7mCo6KU4w@mail.gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 at 8:00 PM
> From: "Yuri Khan" <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "help-gnu-emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 02:18, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
> > > The characters you used above are not for human-readable text, they
> > > are for mathematical formulas. So it has nothing to do with fonts,
> > > you simply use these characters incorrectly.
> >
> > That may be technically right.
> >
> > 𝐵ut 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝑁𝐸𝐸𝐷𝑆 it.
>
> What it *wants* is a way to format text in bold, italic, monospace,
> and strikethrough,
> and so it *needs* HTML or Markdown support.
> But it *has* plain text only
> and so *asks for* reliable support for the Mathematical Alphanumeric
> Symbols block of Unicode.
Talking about mathematical expressions, texinfo does not format symbols in bold.
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2021-05-22 14:53 Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 15:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 15:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 15:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 19:14 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-22 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-22 15:17 ` Omar Polo
2021-05-22 15:22 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-05-22 15:30 ` arthur miller
2021-05-22 15:41 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 15:47 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 15:58 ` Omar Polo
2021-05-22 16:51 ` arthur miller
2021-05-22 19:15 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-22 16:18 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 16:18 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-05-22 16:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 16:43 ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2021-05-22 17:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 16:27 ` arthur miller
2021-05-22 17:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 18:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 18:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-22 18:40 ` music with/from Emacs (was: Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code?) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 21:09 ` music with/from Emacs Arthur Miller
2021-05-22 21:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 21:53 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-22 21:59 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-24 1:32 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-24 11:44 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-22 16:33 ` Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Jean Louis
2021-05-22 17:02 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-05-22 20:08 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-22 20:18 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-22 20:25 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-23 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 19:14 ` Unicode fonts - " Jean Louis
2021-05-23 19:42 ` Input method generator package - Re: Unicode fonts Jean Louis
2021-05-24 8:00 ` Unicode fonts - Re: Why do I find ^L in elisp code? Yuri Khan
2021-05-24 8:18 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2021-05-24 8:48 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24 9:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-24 14:06 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-24 14:24 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24 14:36 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-24 17:39 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 17:31 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-24 18:05 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-24 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 20:19 ` Jean Louis
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