[XeTeX] Roman Numerals as stylistic alternatives

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.06.2011 um 23:40 schrieb Tobias Schoel:

> m I the OP? (I don't know that abbreviation and therefore I am  
> confused.)

*O*riginal *P*oster. (I hope this posting looks original as well.)


> Unicode has codepoints for the roman numerals from 1 to 12 (why 12?).
> So should CXV be stored as an ideogram for 115 or composed of three  
> glyphs 1.C, 1.X and 5.V?

Have you seen in your life analog watches? (Did you manage to notice  
the shape of numbers on the clock-face? I remember having seen a wrist  
watch with Roman numerals – in a joke!) Have you noticed how different  
the writing of dates can be? (And what is the number of known months?)

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