Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Asmus Freytag
Karl, I've published similar "surveys" in the past, where the object was to get feedback on the desirability of further action. I stick by my recommendation in favor of keeping "raw data" out of the document registry and of doing the committee a favor by "adding value" in form of a sifting or

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/16/2011 1:53 AM, Michael Everson wrote: On 16 Jul 2011, at 04:37, Asmus Freytag wrote: It's not a matter of competing "views". There's a well-defined process for adding characters to the standard. It starts by documenting usage. Yes, Asmus, and when one wants to do that, one writes a pro

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Philippe Verdy
Why could'nt we have "dotted square brackets" encoded, allowing then fonts to contain ligatures to generate the symbols, possibly with help of ligature hinting (using joiner controls), to enclose the characters in-between ? E.g. "[RLO]", where the "[", "]" would be the encoded dotted square bracke

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Karl Pentzlin
Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2011 um 19:48 schrieb Asmus Freytag: AF> The document registry should be limited to documents that can and should AF> be reviewed in committee. WG2 N4127 is, by its content and the reference in its introduction, an appendix to the German NB requests expressed in WG2 N4085. It

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Michael Everson
On 16 Jul 2011, at 04:37, Asmus Freytag wrote: > It's not a matter of competing "views". There's a well-defined process for > adding characters to the standard. It starts by documenting usage. Yes, Asmus, and when one wants to do that, one writes a proposal. We aren't writing a proposal here. W

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Michael Everson
On 16 Jul 2011, at 09:08, Julian Bradfield wrote: >> The other two could be proposed as unitary symbols, if anybody really needs >> to represent them. They are commensurate with a large number of similar >> symbols consisting of various numbers of horizontal lines crossed by various >> numbers

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-16 Thread Julian Bradfield
>The record mark (IBM GCGID SS95) consists of two horizontal lines >crossed >by one vertical line. > >The segment mark (IBM GCGID SS96) consists of three vertical lines >crossed >by one horizontal line. > >The group mark (IBM GCGID SS97) consists of three horizontal lines >crossed >b