Re: mu for [N]

René Uittenbogaard wrote:
>
> Depending on how well you can define which font you are using
> (which ought to be easier in a PDF-file than in an HTML-file,
> for example), you could select a font that has "lowercase numbers"
> (is this a well-known term? I mean the numbers where 3,4,5,7 and 9
> extend below the line, 6 and 8 above it, and 0, 1 and 2 are exactly
> the line height). These go together very well with lowercase letters
> in one word, IMHO.

In English, the typographic term for these "lowercase"
numbers is "oldstyle figures."  The digits which are all
the same size are called "modern figures" or "lining
figures."

--Ph. D.