[tei-council] pdf version of guidelines, fonts

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Conal Tuohy wrote:
> IMHO the rendering strategy for any particular output format should be
> provided by the rendering engine responsible.
Yes, you are right. I like your thinking on this. But
in practice, life is a _leetle_ too short for me to want
to change tack again this week.
> Considering it from another angle, how SHOULD one render <num
> value="1E-323"/>? In HTML I would give it as <span
> class="num">10<sup>-323</sup></span>.
>   
you have the advantage over me of knowing that what that
E notation means...
> Finally, from a purely pragmatic point of view, I think there's a
> problem with using the superscript numeral characters, which is that
> very many fonts don't contain good (or any) glyphs for the numerals
> other than 1, 2, and 3. 
yes, I had noticed!
> e.g. here are the superscripted digits 0 to 9: ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹
>   
they all look good to me here :-}


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