[tei-council] pdf version of guidelines, fonts

[Conal Tuohy]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 23:23 +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> > 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...

The "E" is just shorthand for "times 10 to the power of".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation

> > 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 :-}

I can read them, too - well, I wrote them after all :-) - but they
aren't 100% satisfactory.

In my usual email reader (Evolution), the 1, 2, and 3 glyphs are
distinctly larger and bolder than the others. Reading the email in
Microsoft Web Outlook using Firefox, the 1, 2, and 3 appear much
smaller. I don't know what fonts are being used, and perhaps I could
tweak the software to do a better job, but at the moment it's pretty
ugly!

-- 
Conal Tuohy
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
www.nzetc.org