Re: [NTG-context] Math literal colon

On 24 Jul 2015, at 16:28, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 7/24/2015 4:13 PM, Hans Aberg wrote:

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You can add it if you think it is no problem. Proper Unicode characters in the input help the readability, so putting them at high priority seems good.

fyi, on the agenda for the gyre font project is to have a monospaced font that has most of unicode math so that we can have decent editing (once we have the funding covered)

The Unicode monospace characters were added by mistake, because in computer science, style does not affect semantics, as it does math. Looking into old computer science books, they do not have monospace, and a I recall a Pascal compiler on Mac OS 9 that used styled, non-monospace fonts. So a monospace font may not be strictly necessary, though current UTF-8 plain text does not look good. In Xcode, part of the reason is that one cannot choose font per Unicode code point segments.