Yes, a separate list for discussing uses of the Private Use Area would be a
good idea.
I think a good first step would be to enquire of Sarasvati as to whether she
would kindly agree to starting a Unicode Private Use Area list to which
interested people could post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to whic
Marco Cimarosti wrote as follows.
>William Overington wrote:
>> The occurrence of red words raises an interesting aspect of
>> this discussion in that a chromatic font would be needed
>> for the full stop character when decorated [...]
>
>A chromatic font in *conjunction* with markup, of course.
> OK, here are the details. I'm reluctant to admit having been
>part of this "experiment," since it is now being presented as evidence
>to support the proliferation of private-use ligatures.
Actually, no. What I am seeking to use it as evidence for is the addition
of ligatures such as ct to the
Doug Ewell wrote,
> ...
> On 2002-05-31, I wrote a response which ended "Respectfully, Doug,"
> except that I used William's code point U+E707 in place of the letters
> "ct." My intent was that everyone on the Unicode list, including
> William, would see "Respefully," thus demonstrating the lac
William Overington
wrote:
> My point in citing The Respectfully Experiment in the recent post is
> that even though the reasons for not including any more ligatures in
> Unicode may have seemed totally reasonable at the time that that
> decision was made, the idea of James Kass that the glyphs f
- Original Message -
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research
> This isn't limited to ligatures, either. Font desi
William Overington wrote:
> This post makes the scientific
> situation quite clear
Several others have taken you to task for using English words with your
own private meaning, rather than a generally accepted meaning that can
be shared by all on the list. "Science" is one of those words. Scien
I was about to purchase Acrobat to make some pdfs of files that make
advanced usage of Unicode, and then it occured to me I don't know that
much about Acrobat's technology. Does it work from the graphical images
produced by other programs and turn them into PDF format or does it get
more involved
On 06/29/2002 04:50:52 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>Yes, a separate list for discussing uses of the Private Use Area would be
a
>good idea.
>
>I think a good first step would be to enquire of Sarasvati as to whether
she
>would kindly agree to starting a Unicode Private Use Area list
I am inc
On 06/28/2002 11:34:35 PM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
> OK, here are the details...
OK, now I know the cha of events that he was referrg to, and I'm def
itely cled to agree that it was complete cocidence. It is trivial,
fact, to disprove the hypothesis that the "experiment" supposedly proved.
On 06/28/2002 11:34:35 PM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
> OK, here are the details...
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On 06/29/2002 04:47:17 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>This use of two routes to the same glyph in an OpenType font, one newer
>method together with one older method, seems to me to be a development,
>which James Kass thought of,
I can assure you, the idea did not originate with James Kass, and
At 10:50 +0100 2002-06-29, William Overington wrote:
>I think a good first step would be to enquire of Sarasvati as to whether she
>would kindly agree to starting a Unicode Private Use Area list to which
>interested people could post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to which list
>each person on this pre
At 08:46 +0900 2002-06-29, Dan Kogai wrote:
>Though I second the concepts of Unicode, I see no reasons why we
>have to default everything to Unicode; Even Europeans and Americans
>wouldn't buy that idea so long as ISO-8859-1 is enough.
It's not enough for European use. Apart from Greek and C
At 11:05 +0100 2002-06-29, William Overington wrote:
> >Therefore, color decoration is an issue only for *fonts* and/or *rich* text
> >systems, not for Unicode or *plain* text encoding.
>
>Well, why? Surely a decorated full stop could be in a plain text file being
>displayed in a program which
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?
> It's not enough for European use. Apart from Greek and Cyrillic,
> Latin requirements in Northern and Eastern Euro
On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 06:41 AM, James Kass wrote:
>
> This is a display issue rather than an encoding one. Unicode already
> provides for the correct encoding of the "ct" ligature with the
> ZWJ "character". Anyone wishing to correctly display the "ct"
> ligature might need to use a "
Hmm. Disregard the last message from me. It isn't "ct" you're replacing.
See how annoying this all is? :-)
==
John H. Jenkins
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http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 03:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 06/28/2002 11:34:35 PM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
>
>> OK, here are the details...
>
> OK, now I know the cha of events that he was referrg to, and I'm def
> itely cled to agree that it was complete cocidence. It is trivial
>From: Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Japanese Web pages in Unicode?
>Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:40:40 +0100
>
>At 08:46 +0900 2002-06-29, Dan Kogai wrote:
>
>>Though I second the concepts of Unicode, I see no reasons why we
>>have to default everything
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