Adding New Characters

Although we have attempted to put every character into the MTCode encoding that is in common use by mathematicians and scientists, this is a goal that we can approach but never reach. If, in the process of creating a new encoding, you come across characters that are not in MTCode (i.e. not in the Unicode Specification or in the MTCode Encoding Tables), you have two choices:

• Define the character in question as "undefined". This means MathFlow will not know the identity of the character. This is acceptable in some situations. To make a character "undefined", you would use a line like this: 35,F700,UNKNOWN CHARACTER
• Contact Design Science to have the character added to MTCode. To do this, send email to our tech support department at support@dessci.com and provide the following information:
  • an example of the character as a GIF file (or fax a good-quality rendition of the character and, if possible, a page of math in which it occurs);
  • what font it occurs in (if possible, send us the font itself);
  • a suggested name for the character;
  • any additional information on how the character is used (e.g. is it a binary operator like '+', etc.).

We will assign a new MTCode value to the character and tell you how to proceed from there.