D. Starner responded to C. Fynn,
> > Shorthand symbols are of course printed in books on shorthand :-)
>
> But as images, not text. There's likely to be arrows, showing the
> directions, and any changes to glyph form are likely to be errors.
"The Sign of the Four" by Doyle was published in
> > Sounds a bit like Arabic...
>
> Not really, because the actual rendering is bidimensionnal, not
> linear. It's difficult to predict the line height, as the baseline
> changes according to the context of previous characters in the word,
> and its writing direction (forward or backward).
Then i
Shorthand writing systems usually are not used for information interchange.
Thus there seems to be no reason for encoding them.
The Tironian notes, comprising many thousand characters, are the only
exeption, I know. The Tironian et (U+204A) is still in use today. Few other
ones of them, which surv
Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Shorthand symbols are of course printed in books on shorthand :-)
But as images, not text. There's likely to be arrows, showing the
directions, and any changes to glyph form are likely to be errors.
> Stenotype and similar machines also produce short
From: "Christopher Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Philippe Verdy wrote:
<<
It's not impossible to create a rendering system for such stenographic
system, however the general layout is more complex than with traditional
alphabets, because the layout of characters is highly dependant of the
context of
> [Original Message]
> From: Chris Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Christopher Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Is there any plan to include sets of shorthand (Pitman, Gregg etc.)
> > symbols in Unicode? Or are they something which is specifically
excluded?
Philippe Verdy wrote:
<<
It's not impossible to create a rendering system for such stenographic
system, however the general layout is more complex than with traditional
alphabets, because the layout of characters is highly dependant of the
context of previous letters, and the system includes gly
D. Starner wrote:
Christopher Fynn wrote:
Is there any plan to include sets of shorthand (Pitman, Gregg etc.)
symbols in Unicode? Or are they something which is specifically excluded?
They're a form of handwriting, which is generally excluded. Why do
they need to be encoded in a computer? Gener
From: "D. Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Christopher Fynn wrote:
Is there any plan to include sets of shorthand (Pitman, Gregg etc.)
symbols in Unicode? Or are they something which is specifically excluded?
They're a form of handwriting, which is generally excluded. Why do
they need to be encoded in
From: "Chris Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Christopher Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:08 AM
Subject: Unicode & Shorthand?
Is there any plan to include sets of shorthand (Pitman, Gregg etc.)
symbols in Unicod
Christopher Fynn wrote:
> Is there any plan to include sets of shorthand (Pitman, Gregg etc.)
> symbols in Unicode? Or are they something which is specifically excluded?
They're a form of handwriting, which is generally excluded. Why do
they need to be encoded in a computer? General practice, at
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:08 AM
Subject: Unicode & Shorthand?
> Is there any plan to include sets of shorthand (Pitman, Gregg etc.)
> symbols in Unicode? Or are they something which is s
Is there any plan to include sets of shorthand (Pitman, Gregg etc.)
symbols in Unicode? Or are they something which is specifically excluded?
- Chris
Kenneth Whistler wrote,
> > Anyone who wants Unibook for Mac or Unibook for Unix is free to
> > take the concept and go off and write it in your spare time. And
> > if you architect it with a platform-independent system wrapper,
> > so much the better.
Marion Gunn wrote,
> ... I belong to a
I understand. Should have put my question less bluntly? I belong to a
group some of whose members seem to be able to make just about anything
run on anything, no thanks to me, so I assumed the same expertise to be
available within Unicode, only to have some volunteer(s) from within the
ranks of UC
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