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==Formatting abbreviations==
Besides worrying about which abbreviations are used in the charts, there's an issue of formatting. Today, long ones are often split into two or more lines to control the width of the chart. An extreme example is NULL NOTE HEAD in [[Template:Unicode chart Musical Symbols]] but this practice happens in other places like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Unicode_chart_Mongolian]] and [[Template:Unicode chart Variation Selectors Supplement]]. I haven't checked to see if the abbreviations are always in a dashed box but maybe we could have a parm like <tt><nowiki>...|abbr|1D15|{{resize|75%|NULL<br />NOTE<br />&nbsp;HEAD&nbsp;}}</nowiki></tt> to preserve the ability to format these in the current fashion. In any case, formatting is something to consider. [[User:Drmccreedy|DRMcCreedy]] ([[User talk:Drmccreedy|talk]]) 21:47, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
:Eww. See [[User:BabelStone/sandbox#Musical Symbols]] for an attempt to replicate that (without any <code><nowiki><br />&nbsp;</nowiki></code> crap, which is great!). Note that 1D173–1D17A are identified as "format" characters in [[Module:Unicode data|this file]], but "NULL NOTE HEAD" is not. Hence the difference in css/color. The pink can of course be changed later. ―[[special:contributions/cobaltcigs|cobaltcigs]] 20:45, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
==Version==
There have been many past discussions about how to determine which Unicode version to show in the footnote of the chart. Because they were manually updated, it wasn't practical to have a master switch for the version. If the charts are created using <tt>Module:Unicode data</tt> it might be possible to do away with the mindless updating I do once a year for all the charts. A new <tt>Module:Unicode data/version</tt> item could be added that is manually updated after all of the other <tt>Module:Unicode data</tt> files are updated. Basically, it's just a string field to say "We've updated all the other data to version x". If the version footnote was pulled from that string, it would alleviate a lot of manual effort. It would mean adding <tt>Module:Unicode data/version</tt> to the list of "regenerate the charts if tables x, y, and z change". [[User:Drmccreedy|DRMcCreedy]] ([[User talk:Drmccreedy|talk]]) 21:47, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
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