A sign/abbreviation for "magister"
Ken Whistler via Unicode
unicode at unicode.org
Mon Oct 29 23:46:50 CDT 2018
On 10/29/2018 8:06 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> could be typed on old-style mechanical typewriters. Quintessential
> plain-text, that.
Nope. Typewriters were regularly used for underscoring and for
strikethrough, both of which are *styling* of text, and not plain text.
The mere fact that some visual aspect of graphic representation on a
page of paper can be implemented via a mechanical typewriter does not,
ipso facto, mean that particular feature is plain text. The fact that I
could also implement superscripting and subscripting on a mechanical
typewriter via turning the platen up and down half a line, also does not
make *those* aspects of text styling plain text. either.
The same reasoning applies to handwriting, only more so.
--Ken
More information about the Unicode
mailing list