Case study: SS.I typographic redesign

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  • John Butler
    John Butler Posts: 316
    Are the angle bracket codepoints in the math plane?
  • Joshua Langman
    Joshua Langman Posts: 108
    Beats me. The characters I use are 27E8 and 27E9. There was an extensive discussion about angle bracket code points in another thread I started here.

    Speaking of code points, what do people use for the common footnote reference symbol known in scholarly circles as "parallels"? Chicago specifies this as part of their sequence, following asterisk, dagger, etc. I have historically keyed it as two consecutive vertical bars, ||. Is there a dedicated codepoint? If not, that seems like an oversight, given its ubiquity in academic texts.
  • Joshua Langman
    Joshua Langman Posts: 108
    I've just filed a bug report, but given that I've been sharing my process here, I thought this might — amuse? confuse? bemuse? — some of you. I not infrequently run up against InDesign bugs, and I have reported many of them, but this is a new low. One of several dynamic footnotes in a text frame has just jumped up to the middle of the frame. So it is no longer a footnote, though it behaves like one; it's just hanging out in the middle of the page. The precipitating event was applying the multi-column style to the text that now appears below the footnote. Other notes on the page are unaffected. It's always something new and exciting.


  • Kent Lew
    Kent Lew Posts: 994
    Joshua Langman said:
    Speaking of code points, what do people use for the common footnote reference symbol known in scholarly circles as "parallels"? Chicago specifies this as part of their sequence, following asterisk, dagger, etc. I have historically keyed it as two consecutive vertical bars, ||. Is there a dedicated codepoint? If not, that seems like an oversight, given its ubiquity in academic texts.
    I believe the reference mark may be one of the intents behind U+2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE (‖). But Unicode is not specific about this use. (And it is not specified as superscripted, not unlike several others in the sequence: †‡§)


  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,403
    Are the angle bracket codepoints in the math plane?
    No, if by math plane you mean the part of Unicode Plane 1 to which mathalphanumerics are assigned. They are in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block though. That doesn’t imply that their use is limited to maths, though.
  • Peter Constable
    Peter Constable Posts: 255
    John Butler said:
    Are the angle bracket codepoints in the math plane?
    These resources will probably be helpful:

    Unicode Technical Report #25, Unicode Support for Mathematics
    unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/DerivedCoreProperties.txt
  • Joshua Langman
    Joshua Langman Posts: 108
    edited 5:19PM
    I think this is my first use so far of my extract-drama styles:


    I built all my style sheets in a highly systematic fashion, trying to cover all possible combinations of kinds of text and typographic presentations. So I have body text styles for prose, verse, drama, transcripts, etc.; and then extract styles for prose, verse, drama, transcripts, etc. It's nice when one of the more obscure combinations turns out to come in handy.

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