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Originally Posted by jęd
Music, chess and maths have glyphs in unicode... And music and math notification have xml schemas to support them. Just need to have them implemented on the Illiad...  |
Music? Are you referring to the characters in the U-2600-267F range? How can I use them to make a saxophone part in a big band score? I can't.
Chess? Same place -- and I can use those that are there for so-called figurative notation, but how do I set a chess diagram? I can't get by without those. No way to do that.
Math? Much the same thing -- show me how I, in HTML, set up, say, an integral or a summation over a specified domain. It needs more markup than HTML has.
XML schemas ... is probably the way to do it, but going that way a) is tantamount to an admission that the material could not be done in HTML (which is the point from which my response was made), and b) introduces the problem that the recipient must have a reading program that understands the markup. It's not enough to parse it syntactically: the semantics of the markup must be retained as well.
And there's always the problem of locating the relevant schema, along with suitable documentation of it. I know of none for chess -- those I know are crippled or undocumented -- though I can't say about math and music.