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Re: Inverted (=reflected) N
- To: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Inverted (=reflected) N
- From: Matthias Clasen <clasen@tetris.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:05:35 +0100
- Cc: BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG, tech-support@MATH.AMS.ORG, math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
> >
> > i think this would probably be a good occasion to impose some uniformity
> > on this notation. proposal:
> > - Xinv -- inverted top-to-bottom
> > - Xrefl -- mirrored left-to-right
> > - Xrot -- rotated 180\deg so that the top is now the bottom, etc.
>
> I would be happy with those names: of course, for letters with some
> symmetry (eg N, A, E) two of these names will both be applicable to
> the same glyph. Thus one also needs some precedence rule to get a
> canonical name. {See, I can still apply some of that group theory:-)
>
Yes, would probably be an improvement. But if you want to apply group
theory, why not use inv*refl=rot and drop rot :-)
Matthias