Re: OT: HTML/CSS design, LaTeX, Conlang Journal, etc.

On 14 Apr 02, at 14:23, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:

> As to the Conlang Journal, a site that made things available in PDF,
> thus preserving all the formatting and special characters that
> HTML/CSS is not capable of, would be wonderful.
As for "special characters that HTML is not capable of"... you can
represent any Unicode character in HTML -- either code it straight and
send an appropriate Content-type (e.g. "text/html; charset=utf-8") or
use entities such as ₚ for the euro symbol (U+20AC).

That gives you vowels with macrons, w-with-circumflex, Chinese
characters, Thai, Arabic ligatures, ... pretty much anything you
desire. Limited only by the fonts you have installed and the rendering
capability of your user agent (especially when it comes to combining
characters).

And if your favourite Conlang's alphabet managed to get listed in the
ConScript Unicode Registry and you have an appropriate font, you can
even represent that "properly" in HTML (using private-use Unicode code
points).

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>