"Mind the Gap!" as they say on The Tube in London (the UK one).
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> On 21 May 2014, at 02:16, William F Hammond <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:31 AM, David Carlisle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> For that use I'd think
>> a variant declaration which would define \mathbf to flip the mathcodes into the U+1Dxxx block
>> using the base font rather than define it as a swutch to new \fam (\mathgroup) and would be useful.
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> So long as one minds the gaps in U+1Dxxx (actually the several gaps for which the unicode folk seem to have thought the characters were previously defined in the U+21xx block), though maybe it's not that much of an issue for \mathbf itself as opposed to \mathcal, \mathfrak, and \mathbb.
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> At least they were thoughtful enough to leave those slots empty. :-)
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> Just seizing the opportunity to make everyone aware of the gaps.
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> -- Bill
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