time to send to Unicode Consortium?

[StefanKarpinski]

This document seems as ready as it's going to get at this point. Time to submit it and see what happens?

[c42f]

There's still a lot of TODOs down at the bottom of the tex file.

[StefanKarpinski]

We need to get some people to work on those then 😀

[stevengj]

Most of the TODO's are done. The main remaining items:

• Get expert input on the font question — i.e. how easy would this be to implement in fonts and text-rendering software?
• Once we have a complete draft, we will set a deadline to submit it (e.g. October 1) and contact various prominent developers to see if they will add their names.

[francispoulin]

I think this is a great idea and as a new Julia user I'd very much like to see this happen. Having said that, I don't imagine it's an easy thing to do but wanted to let you know that I support this proposal.

[stevengj]

The main sticking point right now is the "provision of fonts" question. Proposals are supposed to include contact info for someone willing to provide a font, but we've had no volunteers so far.

[francispoulin]

Sadly I don't really know what that entails so I'm not of much help I'm affraid.

[freemin7]

@cormullion maker of Julia Mono would you be interested in helping with this?

[cormullion]

I've already made a font with the required characters - nothing much more I can do... 😄

[stevengj]

I've already made a font with the required characters - nothing much more I can do...

That's great! Can you make a PR with your contact information and the information for downloading the draft font?

[cormullion]

Feel free to add https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono and https://github.com/cormullion at some suitable location in your TEX file. (I'm not much of a TEX-er myself.)

[stevengj]

I think they probably want offline contact information too.

[stevengj]

It says "the name and contact information", so at least your legal name and email, probably?

[stevengj]

Also, do you have a summary of which sub/superscript glyphs were added to https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono?

[StefanKarpinski]

It's possible that @cormullion may not want to publicize his contact information or identity, in which case perhaps we could use someone else as a proxy to provide offline contact information? I would be happy to do so, for example.

[cormullion]

I added these to the Private Use Area:

for i in 0xf0000:8:0xf0000+300
    print(string(i, base=16))
       for j in i:i+8
          print(" "^4, string("x", Char(j)))
       end
   println()
end

(give or take the odd ϕ that needs changing... 😄) Of course some of these are just copies of the Unicode glyphs as currently defined.

Stefan, you're right - I'm used to keeping OSS work separate. Thank you for your thoughtfulness! If you can't reach me online, I've probably died or have stopped functioning effectively... 😄