[tei-council] pdf version of guidelines, fonts

[David Sewell]

For what it's worth, an NIST style guide to use of SI units consistently 
typesets exponenets using superscript exponent notation rather than 
scientific notation:

  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html

(though they're using superscripted hyphen rather than Unicode 
superscript minus characters for negative exponents. but that renders 
better in most font/browser combinations, I think)

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Syd Bauman wrote:
>>   <desc><num value="1E-10" rend="sup">-10</num></desc>
>>
> well good gracious, why don't we just write "1E-10" all the time
> and forget the superscripts? it's all gibberish anyway to 99.999%
> of us humanities folk!
>
> However! I have reverted data.numeric and att.measurement
> to their "as was" status, with the Unicode superscript chars,
> and I apologize for causing this long correspondence! The sleeping
> dogs can go back to their beds.
>
> I am working round it in the PDF.
>
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