Peter Constable commented as follows. > >On 09/26/2002 06:05:45 AM "William Overington" wrote:
Dallas is 6 hours behind England on the clock. > >I'm going to refrain from commenting on anything beyond the markup issues As you wish. Though did you stick to that even in the same sentence? >-- and I'm continuing with that only because it's an easy follow-on to what >I already wrote, As you wish. even though there is every indication that the sensibility >of it will be ignored. This did not appear to have meaning. I checked on the meaning of the word sensibility just to make sure. Did you intend to convey the meaning "the good sense of what I write" rather than "the sensibility of it"? Yet what indication whatsoever do you have that I ignore what you write? I do not always agree with you, yet where specific references to documents on the web are made I always attempt to obtain them and study the points you make. Certainly, I may not agree with you. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I do not agree and sometimes I am undecided in a matter. That surely is the nature of critical scholarship and research. > > >>A document would contain a sequence such as follows. >> >>U+2604 U+0302 U+20E3 12001 U+2460 London U+2604 U+0302 U+20E2 > > >You could just as easily have used > ><S C="12001">London</S> > >or > ><S C="12001" P1="London"/> > >which are only slightly more verbose, but which follow a widely-implemented >standard that can be parsed by lots of existing software, for which there >are a large number of tools available, and which a vast number of >indivuals, businesses and other agencies have an interest in. Your markup >convention is completely proprietary, Thank you. That is excellent. I designed the comet circumflex key with the specific intention that it was creatively original whilst being expressible using a standard all-Unicode font. >it has no existing software support, >and nobody but you has any interest in it. You have no basis whatsoever for claiming that nobody other than me has any interest in it. Maybe you are not interested, maybe some people you know are not interested, yet I feel that it is unfair for you to make such a statement without evidence when writing from an established organization as that remark may prejudice people from taking an interest in helping to develop the idea because of a political dimension of going against the tide. You have your position and I feel that you should allow someone who does not have such a position an even-handed chance to put forward an idea and have it considered on its merits. >You tell me which one is more >likely to result in productive work and adoption by others. Likelihood of success and what actually happens are not the same thing. I do not know which is more likely as I do not know of what has happened already. Some people may have deleted the email, some may have read it and disregarded it, yet it is possible that some people might have tried to produce a comet circumflex button on the screen using an all-Unicode font and might be considering the possibilities of how the system could be applied or might even be writing an experimental software program which can take comet circumflex sequences and process them through a database. Look, for example, at The Respectfully Experiment in the Unicode mailing list archives. There a result was assumed and something different was observed in practice. > >>that it is >>because I am an inventor, interested in pushing the envelope as to what is >>possible scientifically and technologically. Marco asked me a specific question, so I answered what he had asked. > >Perhaps there is an [EMAIL PROTECTED] list somewhere where you might >find greater interest in your ideas than here. That is unfair of you. You have chosen to respond to my posts and I have answered the questions which you asked. You even stated in the same post. quote I'm going to refrain from commenting on anything beyond the markup issues end quote The topic of keys generally which I have introduced is potentially a far-reaching development in the application of markup in Unicode based systems. My own comet circumflex system may be highly useful in business communications and distance education. I am happy to respond to questions and to consider documents which people suggest. >None of us here mind >invention, but I think most would believe that inventiveness is most >productive when building off the advancement of others rather than >reinventing wheels or widgets. XML exists, and it works. XML exists and it uses U+003C in a way that makes using U+003C with the meaning LESS-THAN SIGN in body text intermixed with markup sections awkward. That feature of XML may not matter for situations involving encoding simply literary works, yet for a comprehensive system which can include the U+003C character with the meaning LESS-THAN SIGN in body text and in markup parameters, it does not suit my need. > >Beside the fact that your proposed markup convention is not a good idea, it >has nothing whatsoever to do with the development of Unicode. This >discussion really ought to be taken elsewhere. It is not a fact that my proposed markup convention, as you call it, is not a good idea. It may be your opinion and it might perhaps be the opinion of some other people. Yet my proposed markup convention, as you call it, is entirely within the rules, for keys generally, as in my original post, and for my comet circumflex key in particular. It has a lot to do with the development of Unicode. The Unicode Consortium has at least one document about using markup available on its website. You are not, as far as I aware, an officer of the Unicode Consortium, so that is just your opinion. Why should the discussion be taken elsewhere? It is about the application of Unicode to markup and of one particular application to language translation in a manner where Unicode could be widely used, as the comet circumflex system could be used with all of the languages which Unicode supports. I respond to people who respond to my posts. If you or anyone else responds in the list making points where I feel that I want to respond, then I shall respond. You respond to posts. Actually, I was rather hoping that, with your specific interest in languages that you would have wished to have a try at using the comet circumflex system as one of the features of the comet circumflex system is that it could be used with minority languages as easily as with the major languages of the world. William Overington 27 September 2002
