Bold-face needed for symbols. Unicode symbol fonts?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg118923] Bold-face needed for symbols. Unicode symbol fonts?
- From: "Christopher O. Young" <cy56 at comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 03:34:10 -0400 (EDT)
If Mathematica dispensed with the requirement that all input be in bold-faced type, this would make it possible to have the extremely helpful, time-honored convention of bold-faced for vectors and matrices versus regular face for scalars. In general, it would enable doubling of the number of characters available for distinct symbols. This goes even more for allowing Unicode symbols fonts to be used. This would multiply the characters set many-fold.