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On Saturday, 7 August 2010, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote:
I think the alternate ending glyph is supposed to be
specified in more detail than that. The example Asmus
gave was U+222A UNION with serifs. Even though the exact
proportions of the serifs may differ
On Aug 7, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
I'd like to see an FAQ page on What is Plain Text? written primarily by UTC
officers. That might go a long way toward resolving the differences between
William's interpretation of what plain text is, which people like me think is
too broad,
John H. Jenkins wrote:
The basic idea is that plain text is the minimum amount of
information to process the given language in a normal way.
That's a bit vague. We don't normally process languages; we read texts.
Whether font or color variation is essential for understanding really
depends
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On Friday 6 August 2010, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
What you mean are artistic or stylistic variants.
These have certain problems, see here for an explanation:
http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221#p221
A./
I have read and
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On Friday 6 August 2010, John H. Jenkins jenk...@apple.com wrote:
This is another case of a solution in search of a problem.
No, the problem is that one cannot at present, as far as I know, access
alternate glyphs of an advanced format font from a plain text file.
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com
wrote:
I cannot understand from that text, or otherwise at the time of
writing this reply, why it would not be possible to have an alternate
ending glyph for a letter e accessible from plain text using an
advanced font
On Thursday, 5 August 2010, Kenneth Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote:
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
On 8/6/2010 2:03 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
On Thursday, 5 August 2010, Kenneth Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote:
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
On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:03 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
The standards organizations have a great opportunity to advance typography by
defining some of the Latin letter plus variation selector pairs so that
alternate glyphs within a font may be accessed directly from plain text.
This is
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