Thank you to Doug and to Asmus for replying.
Originally I was thinking of the format simply being so as to help to level the
infrastructural ground as between a PUA (Private Use Area) application using
left-to-right characters and a PUA application using right-to-left characters.
However, th
Asmus Freytag wrote:
> The right answer would follow the XML format of the UCD.
Question: Since the ucdxml formats became available, has any consensus
emerged as to whether the "flat" or "grouped" formats are preferred?
Obviously they both contain the same data, but one is much smaller and
the
On 8/23/2011 7:22 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Of all applications, a word processor or DTP application would want to
know more about the properties of characters than just whether they are
RTL. Line breaking, word breaking, and case mapping come to mind.
I would think the format used by standard UCD
William_J_G Overington
wrote:
> Suppose that a a "special researcher's edition" of a wordprocessing
> application or a desktop publishing application at start up looks in a
> specified directory for a file with the following file name.
>
> pua_major.txt
>
> If pua_major.txt exists, then it is
On Monday 22 August 2011, William_J_G Overington
wrote:
> Would a third option work?
>
> In the Description section of the Macintosh Roman section of a TrueType font,
> include a line of text in a plain text format of which the following line of
> text is an example.
>
> PUA.RTL="$E000-$E
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