Re: [Boost-docs] Creating multiline Unicode symbols

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Creating multiline Unicode symbols
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-14 10:03:52

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost-docs [mailto:boost-docs-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of John
> Maddock
> Sent: 13 November 2014 16:31
> To: Discussion of Boost Documentation
> Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Creating multiline Unicode symbols
> 
> > Please can anyone suggest a better way of making Quickbook play nicer
> > with indenting the lines together and getting the bits of the bracket
> > to line up better?
> 
> No, and I think you're on to a loser here I'm afraid - using spaces to get
text to line
> up (unless you're using a monotype font, in which case you won't have the
needed
> Unicode symbols?) is pretty much a waste of time.

But using SVG is yet another file and much longer for simple formulae.
 
> I must return to getting SVG to display correctly in generated docs - I think
I was
> almost there, but it was so long ago I've forgotten :-(

As I recall, the ball with in Microsoft's court - IE was assuming that all SVG
were virus ridden,
and that was terminal for SVG in html.  Or have I forgotten too.

 > However, the attached took just a couple of moments to create using Mathcast
and
> is always likely to produce a better result than inline text?

Always an option, especially for more complicated formulae.

Thanks

Paul