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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 />&amp;nbsp;HEAD&amp;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 />&amp;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)

::Wow, I've never realised that U+1D159 is not a format character. Are there any other characters displayed as a dashed box around text that are not format or control characters? <s>I don't think so</s> (variation selectors are gc=Mn). The worrying thing is there seems to be no way of extracting the information from the UCD, so it relies on visually checking the Unicode code charts, but what if it changes suddenly to a graphic character in a new version of Unicode? My gut feeling is that gc=So is wrong if the character has no visible glyph and is not whitespace. [[User:BabelStone|BabelStone]] ([[User talk:BabelStone|talk]]) 22:52, 13 September 2019 (UTC)