Add name for the "whitespace glyph" symbol.#153
Add name for the "whitespace glyph" symbol.#153zacharie-moughanim wants to merge 8 commits intotypst:mainfrom
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Note that a similar character exists in Unicode: U+2420 ␠ SYMBOL FOR SPACE. Both come from the Control Pictures block. |
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The name in html is |
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Maybe we could remove forget about the name |
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According to French Wikipédia, U+2422 ␢ is used in theoretical computer science.1 I am struggling to find uses of this symbol other than the book mentioned on this page, and unable to locate the proposal that lead to its inclusion to Unicode. I do not know whether we actually want to assign it a name. My intuition is that the graphic pictures for control codes (i.e., 2400..2421 and 2424) should be in their own sub-module because they are so clearly related without being variants of each others. Then, U+2423 ␣ could either be a variant of U+2420 ␠ and U+2422 ␢ Footnotes |
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Also, don't forget to update the changelog to mention the addition(s). |
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Just added each symbol representing a non-printable character under a submodule I got most of the names from compart and from this wikipedia page. |
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I think we should use the full words Edit: Missed a couple |
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For the control code pictures, I am wondering whether it would actually be better to use the common abbreviations for the symbols (e.g., as listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Latin_(Unicode_block)#Table_of_characters), which seems to match the letters displayed on the corresponding glyphs?
Right now, multiple variants feel weird, such as heading.start or transmission.end, because they seem to imply the existence of a dual variant (heading.end and transmission.start) that does not in fact exist (or rather, it exists under a different name: heading.end is text.start and transmission.start is heading.start). I feel like most control codes exist as is and aren't variants of each others, so using separate names would make more sense.
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I think we can leave this one out of this PR as this is a symbol used on keyboards rather than a control picture.
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Those two definitely belong outside of the control submodule imo.
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Please make sure the file ends with a proper line ending.
The "whitespace glyph" is the symbol often used to designate the spacebar on keyboards : ␣.
I'm honestly not sure about the name, nor if it is pertinent to put it as a variant of
space, which always designate whitespaces.