This text should not be bold. This line should be green. Example of a hyperlink to the CSS home page with special one-off visited and hover effects. The Sekushii font ¶ The Sekushii font is part of the Sugaku series . It has all the symbols above, in many sets, both light and medium weight.
Example of a hyperlink to the CSS home page with special one-off visited and hover effects.Gender symbols and the Sekushii font December 27, 2002 | |||||||||||||
Gender symbol fonts | ¶ I was struck by the lack of complete fonts with gender symbols. The TeX/Metafont community lives with Denis Roegel's Genealogy font, created in 1996 and updated in 1999. Denis Roegel essentially compiled the genealogical symbols found in Roland Waldi's Wasy font (1992), which has a male and female symbol set, and Knuth's "gen" font, and added the standard symbols for males and females. ¶ The truetype world probably is most acquainted with Marvin Vogel's useful (and free!) symbol font Marvosym, which contains symbols for sexless, male, female and hermaphrodite. Marvin recognizes that there are other people in this world besides straight males or females, but the symbol he suggests for hermaphrodites is not the one used by or suggested by the world of sex experts [read on below]. Curtis Clark made the free font called Female and Male Symbols (1996), which contains the same gender symbols as Marvosym. ¶ WordPerfect's WP IconicSymbolsA (1993) just has a male and a female symbol. ¶ There are, of course, a number of commercial outfits that have the standard pair of gender symbols in some of their fonts. Particularly artistic are P22's Koch Signs 3 and Koch Signs 4. Whether by design or accident, these also have a glyph for hermaphrodites. An even more complete set is Ann's Castro family of fonts from Dingbatcave (Ann Stretton), at 10 dollars per style. ¶ Unicode has reserved position 9792 for the female sign, and 9794 for the male sign. Nothing is reserved for the others. Some Unicode fonts indeed do have these two characters. However, no Unicode font has more than this bare minimum, and thus, the Unicode path is a cul-de-sac. ¶ So, that is the current state of affairs. The world's gay community started using their own symbols, derived from those for male (the symbol for Mars) and female (the symbol for Venus). But, not to be left out, the bisexuals, both male and female by birth, suggested their own glyphs. Outnumbered but not outgunned, the hermaphrodites picked their own symbol, that of Mercury. But it does not end there. The transexuals do not fit into any of the above categories, so they have their own symbols. Transgendered people are usually defined as those who are aware of all people of all sexual orientations and preferences, and approach relationships in a gender-free manner. Well, they have their own symbol. I never located the symbol for eunuchs, but I am sure there must be one. Of course, the combinations multiply. However, I refuse to create symbols for gay hermaphrodites, transsexuals who like eunuchs, and males who had two sex change operations (to get back to where they started from). ¶ If you have a special request though, send it to me, and I will see if I can make a font for you. Always for free, of course. | ||||||||||||
The symbols
| ¶ The ultimate place for symbols is the highly recommended site Symbols.com. For definitions of transsexual, transgender, bisexual, and other terms, see here. Some symbols are shown here. Official books always lag behind, so I went looking for what people actually use to represent different sexual orientations, preferences and situations. At present, the world seems to agree on the following symbols:
| Aware of the joint cause of gays and lesbians. Also (sometimes) transsexuals. Also, quite universally in science, used for hermaphrodites. See here. Symbol.com states that it is used in botany for double-sexed plants. Also, (sometimes) heterosexuals in general. See here or here. |
Bisexuals. Sometimes used for people fighting for gay and lesbian rights. | |
Transgender. See here. | |
Another symbol for transgender: see here. | |
Bisexuals. | |
Bisexuals, as proposed here. Closely related in some places to the symbol for bisexual men. | |
Bisexual men. | |
Bisexual women. | |
Mercury, or Wednesday: Hermaphrodites. See here. The Greek equivalent of Mercury is Hermes, hence the name. Apparently, biologists use this for hermphrodites. |
The Sekushii font
¶ The Sekushii font is part of the Sugaku series. It has all the symbols above, in many sets, both light and medium weight. There are straight-farrowed sets for combining with sans serif text, flared arrows for serif text, and fun experiments and extensions with various sexual undertones. And, it is free! Have a ball.
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School of Computer Science Gilliam University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 |
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3. Grammar The syntax of the CSS fragment that is allowed in the HTML "style" attribute can be formally specified as follows: inline-stylesheet : S* [ declarations | declarations-block | inline-ruleset* | stylesheet ] ; declarations : declaration [ ';' S* declaration ]* ; declarations-block : '{' S* declarations '}' S* ; inline-ruleset : [ pseudo* S* [ ',' S* pseudo* S* ]* ]? declarations-block ; Please refer to the grammar in appendix D of the CSS2 specification [CSS2] for the definition of the symbols not defined here. The same rules for forward-compatible parsing apply to the inline style sheet as to a normal style sheet. See chapter 4 of the CSS2 specification. 4. Cascading order CSS already defines how style sheets and "style" attributes are cascaded together for the case where the inline fragment consists of declarations only. In addition to simple declarations, the style attribute is now permitted to take rulesets. These rules have the additive specificity of their selectors in addition to the specificity of the style attribute. The examples indicate what is added to each of the specificity components using the familiar '+=' notation. Example: This is an example of a paragraph with inline style attribute rules to create a spot effect, in this case, a drop-cap first letter. Example: Example of a hyperlink to the CSS home page with special one-off visited and hover effects.
This line should be green.
1. History HTML 4.0 introduced the "style" attribute, whose contents could contain any styling language (through the use of META http-equiv Content-Style-Type), but by default, and in practice, has only contained CSS. XHTML Modularization introduced the Style Attribute Module which also has a "style" attribute whose semantics are the same as that in HTML 4. SVG also has a language neutral "style" attribute, whose language is specified with the contentStyleType attribute which has the default value of "text/css". MathML states that all MathML elements accept the "style" attribute to facilitate compatibility with CSS. Not all XML-based document formats have a "style" attribute to permit the user to use CSS to style documents and specific elements in documents, but in case a certain format has a "style" attribute and the attribute accepts CSS as its value, then this specification describes the attribute's syntax and interpretation. 2. Examples Here are a few examples: Only setting properties on the element itself, no pseudo-elements or pseudo-classes:
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Setting properties on the element, as well as on the first letter of the element, by means of the '::first-letter' pseudo-element. Note that curly braces ({...}) are required in this case: ...
Setting properties on a source anchor for each of its dynamic states, using pseudo-classes: ... Importing a style sheet to apply as a scoped style sheet:
Note: in CSS1 and CSS2, the spelling of '::first-letter' and '::first-line' is ':first-letter' and ':first-line' respectively, i.e., with a single colon, but Selectors recommends using double colons for pseudo-elements. This document defines both the simple case (only properties on the element itself, example 1), as well as more complex cases such as rules that apply only to the element (e.g. properties on the element's pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes, examples 2 and 3), and scoped style sheets (the use of @import which apples the referenced style sheet to the subdocument consisting of the element and its children with the element as the root, example 4). 3. Grammar The syntax of the CSS fragment that is allowed in the HTML "style" attribute can be formally specified as follows: inline-stylesheet : S* [ declarations | declarations-block | inline-ruleset* | stylesheet ] ; declarations : declaration [ ';' S* declaration ]* ; declarations-block : '{' S* declarations '}' S* ; inline-ruleset : [ pseudo* S* [ ',' S* pseudo* S* ]* ]? declarations-block ; Please refer to the grammar in appendix D of the CSS2 specification [CSS2] for the definition of the symbols not defined here. The same rules for forward-compatible parsing apply to the inline style sheet as to a normal style sheet. See chapter 4 of the CSS2 specification. 4. Cascading order CSS already defines how style sheets and "style" attributes are cascaded together for the case where the inline fragment consists of declarations only. In addition to simple declarations, the style attribute is now permitted to take rulesets. These rules have the additive specificity of their selectors in addition to the specificity of the style attribute. The examples indicate what is added to each of the specificity components using the familiar '+=' notation. Example:
This is an example of a paragraph with inline style attribute rules to create a spot effect, in this case, a drop-cap first letter.
Example:
Hypertext Markup Language
Test passes if there is no space between the green and blue boxes below.