David Starner wrote,
> Can some books be mostly handled with Unicode plain text
> and italics? Sure. HTML can handle them quite nicely. ...
Yes, many books can be handled very well with HTML using simple
mark-up. If I were producing a computer file to reproduce an old
fiction novel, that's
On 1/8/2019 10:58 PM, James Kass via
Unicode wrote:
If a text is published in all italics, that’s style/font choice.
If a text is published using italics and roman contrastively and
consistently, and everybody else is doing it pretty much the same
Ken Whistler wrote,
> It isn't the job of the Unicode Consortium or the Unicode Standard
> to sort that stuff out or to standardize characters to represent it.
Agreed, it isn’t.
> When somebody brings to the UTC written examples of established
> orthographies using character conventions that
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:03 AM James Kass via Unicode
wrote:
> The boundaries of plain text have advanced since the concept originated
> and will probably continue to do so. Stress can currently be
> represented in plain text with conventions used in lieu of existing
> typographic practice. Uni
James,
On 1/8/2019 1:11 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
But we're still using typewriter kludges to represent stress in Latin
script because there is no Unicode plain text solution.
O.k., that one needs a response.
We are still using kludges to represent stress in the Latin script
because
On 1/8/2019 1:11 PM, James Kass via
Unicode wrote:
Asmus Freytag wrote,
> ...
> (for an extreme example there's an orthography
> out there that uses @ as a letter -- we know that
> won't work well wit
Asmus Freytag wrote,
> ...
> (for an extreme example there's an orthography
> out there that uses @ as a letter -- we know that
> won't work well with email addresses and duplicate
> encoding of the @ shape is a complete non-starter).
Everything's a non-starter. Until it begins.
Is this a cas
Marcel Schneider wrote,
> With rich text we need to stay in rich text, whereas the goal of
> this thread is to point ways of ensuring interoperability.
Both interoperability and legibility are factors. The question might
be: How legible should Unicode be for Latin—barely legible, moderately
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