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Crystallography
[edit]Crystallography uses these things to denote whether a plane or direction is being discussed, and whether it's generic or specific. I have put up a basic account of their use in Crystallography#Notation, but you may want to wait a few days for it to stabilize before you copy it into this article. This may also convince someone to finally flesh out Miller index.--Joel 06:14 & :18, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
Usage in chat
[edit]On chatrooms and message boards, actions are put in brackets.
- "I know she can't sing, but I like Lindsay Lohan {ducks from flying vegetables}."
There's also the "Insert Item" usage.
- "I don't care if [insert nominee here] deserves to be in the hall of fame, I think that Maris should be in."
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.172.165 (talk) 05:33 & :34, 6 November 2006
Blackboard bold markup
[edit]@Spitzak: Greetings! With regard to this revert: MOS:BBB requires that blackboard bold characters be written with <math>...</math> markup. The only common exception is when discussing characters themselves; this table is not discussing U+2124 ℤ DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL Z, so I'm not sure why we'd use that character instead of following the general rule? The MOS also allows bold ASCII Z, if for whatever reason you'd prefer an all-text representation. -- Beland (talk) 19:18, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Doesn't {{math}} count as math markup? Mostly trying to get it so if the user copies the line and pastes it somewhere they get the matching text and can then delete the stuff between the brackets. Spitzak (talk) 22:18, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, {{math}} is often used for math markup on English Wikipedia, but MOS:BBB says not to use it for blackboard bold. When I copy and paste that cell with
<math>...</math>markup, I get "⦉⦊". I guess that means the system has saved me a step if I was going to delete the content between the brackets anyway? If you want the whole expression to copy-and-paste exactly as written, the MOS-compliant {{math|⦉''x'':'''Z'''⦊}} pastes as "⦉x:Z⦊" which is the same except that (depending on your system) like the existing version it loses italics and bolding. -- Beland (talk) 23:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, {{math}} is often used for math markup on English Wikipedia, but MOS:BBB says not to use it for blackboard bold. When I copy and paste that cell with
Lack of mention of multi-line brackets, although several examples use them?
[edit]Unicode has codepoints 239B to 23AD for brackets (parentheses, curly braces) spanning multiple lines. For example:
239B ⎛ Left Parenthesis Upper Hook
239C ⎜ Left Parenthesis Extension
239D ⎝ Left Parenthesis Lower Hook
All three examples of "Uses of { }" actually show curly braces spanning multiple lines, and two of them even seem to use these characters (I just checked, and this is indeed the case: "⎱" is U+23B1.) Yet there is no mention of these Unicode codepoints. This seems strange? 5.186.55.135 (talk) 19:43, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Top table replacement
[edit]I spent a bit laying this out, does it seem at all viable?
| ( ) | [ ] | { } | ⟨ ⟩ |
|---|---|---|---|
| brackets (BE) | square brackets (BE) | braces | angle brackets |
| round brackets (BE) | brackets (AE) | curly brackets (BE) | chevrons |
| parentheses (AE) |