Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters

2010-08-05 Thread William_J_G Overington
Thank you for your reply. On Wednesday 4 August 2010, Karl Pentzlin wrote: > WO> Why is it not possible specifically to request a one-storey form of > lowercase letter a? > > I did not this, as I do not know a cultural context where the two-storey form > is to be suppressed to prevent an "a

Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters

2010-08-05 Thread William_J_G Overington
On Wednesday 4 August 2010, Asmus Freytag wrote: > However, there's no need to add variation sequences to > select an *ambiguous* form. Those sequences should be > removed from the proposal. Are you here talking about such things as alternate glyph styles? It depends what one means by "need"

Re: long s

2010-08-05 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 Karl Pentzlin wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010 um 19:11 schrieb Janusz S. Bień: > > JJSB> I see no reason why, if I understand correctly, the long s variant is > JSB> to be limited to Fraktur-like styles. > > The *variant* is applicable to situations where the character i

Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters

2010-08-05 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/5/2010 3:47 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote: On Wednesday 4 August 2010, Asmus Freytag wrote: However, there's no need to add variation sequences to select an *ambiguous* form. Those sequences should be removed from the proposal. Are you here talking about such things as alter

Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters

2010-08-05 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> I am thinking of where a poet might specify an ending version > of a glyph at the end of the last word on some lines, yet not > on others, for poetic effect. I think that it would be good > if one could specify that in plain text. Why can't a poet find a poetic means of doing that, instead o

Re: CSUR Tonal

2010-08-05 Thread Doug Ewell
Kent Karlsson wrote: I see absolutely no point in reencoding the digits 0-9 even though 9 is (strangely) used to denote the value that is usually denoted 10. That is just a (very strange) usage, not different characters from the ordinary 0-9. I suggested encoding all of them because U+0030