Perhaps the idea of something embedded in the text that then controls
the display of the subsequent run of text is the very definition of
markup, whether or not that markup is a special character or an
ASCII sequence like /spanspan style=gait:xxx; or /spanspan
style=font:xxx;.
On Mon, Oct 17,
On 10/17/2011 1:23 AM, Peter Cyrus wrote:
Perhaps the idea of something embedded in the text that then controls
the display of the subsequent run of text is the very definition of
markup, whether or not that markup is a special character or an
ASCII sequence like/spanspan style=gait:xxx;
It's been done already : the International Phonetic Alphabet. If we
all just wrote in that, it would make Unicode much easier to
implement, too.
I'm just working on Plan B, just in case.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Ken Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote:
On 10/17/2011 1:23 AM, Peter Cyrus
Your idea of propagation seems worth exploring - thanks!
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Richard Wordingham
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:37:20 +0200
Peter Cyrus pcy...@alivox.net wrote:
Perhaps, awkwardly. But that is ultimately equivalent to marking the
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:37:11 +0200
Peter Cyrus pcy...@alivox.net wrote:
Ken, your explanation seems more permissive than I had anticipated.
One particularity of this script is that it is written in different
gaits, depending on the phonology of the language. Languages with
open syllables,
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:37:20 +0200
Peter Cyrus pcy...@alivox.net wrote:
Perhaps, awkwardly. But that is ultimately equivalent to marking the
gait on every letter, in which case I probably wouldn't need to
distinguish between initial and non-initial letters.
If you allow C(R)V(C) as a 'fixed'
Is there a definition or guideline for the distinction between plain
text and rich text?
For example, in the expression 3², the exponent is a single character,
superscript two. Semantically, this expression is equivalent to
3^2, using a visible character to indicate exponentiation and then
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Peter Cyrus pcy...@alivox.net wrote:
For that matter, perhaps the normal space is a type of markup, especially when
it triggers the use of a final variant in the previous character.
Not the following space, but a word boundary triggers the use of a
final variant
On 10/13/2011 10:49 PM, Peter Cyrus wrote:
Is there a definition or guideline for the distinction between plain
text and rich text?
I think where you may be getting hung up is trying to define plain
text versus rich text in terms of the content and/or appearance of
the text (i.e. the
Ken,
Peter asked for what the Unicode Consortium considers plain text, ie.
what principles it apllies when deciding whether to encode a certain
element or aspect of writing as a character. In turn, you thoroughly
explained that plain text is what the Unicode Consortium considered to
be plain text
On 10/14/2011 11:47 AM, Joó Ádám wrote:
Peter asked for what the Unicode Consortium considers plain text, ie.
what principles it apllies when deciding whether to encode a certain
element or aspect of writing as a character. In turn, you thoroughly
explained that plain text is what the Unicode
Ken, your explanation seems more permissive than I had anticipated.
Your example of 3sup2/sup would seem to me at risk of behaving
in unforeseen ways if, for instance, it were split up. Wouldn't it
match a string up 2? Wouldn't it fail to match 3²? I guess I
thought that plain text should be
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