----- Original Message ----- From: "Asmus Freytag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karl Pentzlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 31 januari 2002 22:09 Subject: When to use markup: (Was:Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur))
> A more productive distinction would be along these lines: > > a) is the feature necessary for correctly expressing the content Yes. > b) is the feature rule based, and Yes. > b.1) is the rule implementable w/o knowledge of semantics, or No. > c) when implementing the feature, is it necessary to > c.1) provide scope information, or Yes. > c.2) is local context sufficient No. > Leaving out italics from a document can not only change the level of > emphasis, but for example in English, there are occasional circumstances > where the use of italics removes a possible ambiguity in interpreting > a sentence. Nevertheless (except for mathematics) italics were left to > a higher level protocol (style markup). Italics is better supported than Fraktur, as most word processors have an option for using italics with any font installed on the computer. For Fraktur one has to use a different font. There is no Fraktur font widely spread on all Windows computers or something like that, so it's almost impossible to using Fraktur text in any public document or similar w/o using bitmaps. Why was Fraktur supported for mathematics, but not for old Swedish/German/etc.? Stefan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com