Talk:Contiguity (probability theory)

New start

I have moved to here stuff from Contiguity space, expanded details on one of the footnotes, and revised the lead. Could someone check/revise the stuff that points here from Contiguity. Melcombe (talk) 13:43, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Proposed revert

I propose that this article be reverted to before the introduction of all the unreadable unicode. Putting this stuff in just wastes everbody's time. Of course if someone who can actaully see what is meant they might be able to replace it directly. Melcombe (talk) 10:22, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Pardon, but what are you talking about? There is a standard symbol for denoting contiguity, and it should be mentioned in the definition.  … stpasha »  17:15, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I was refering both to your attempt to get a curly F by imposing an unusual font, which has now gone from the article, and to your use of what looks to be unicode to get ◁ and ▷. These do not display well on all systems. There are perfectly acceptable symbols using the math markup: $\triangleleft ,\triangleright$ given by <math>\triangleleft, \triangleright</math>. Melcombe (talk) 11:16, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Well this is a generic problem with Wikipedia, isn't it? <math> markup cannot be used in text, because it renders too large font size, which violates MoS; and Unicode cannot be used because it may not display properly on various systems. The <math>\scriptstyle</math> is undesirable because it generates too small font and also incorrect spacing between elements; and <math style="zoom:…"> will produce blurred text, because TeX generates into .gif format not into .svg.

So there is no perfect way of dealing with inline math, although if <math> environment could be fixed, that would probably be the best solution.  … stpasha »  20:55, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Read MoS carefully. It says "discouraged" in relation to inline math-formatted stuff at standard size, but it itself uses in-line math-formatted stuff at standard size even when not discussing that particular issue. It also says (under "special symbols) "One way to guarantee that an uncommon symbol is rendered correctly for all readers is to force the symbol to display as an image, using the <math> environment". Melcombe (talk) 13:47, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

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