Mark E. Shoulson wrote at 9:42 AM on Friday, May 7, 2004: >Dean Snyder wrote: > >>We need EXPLICIT reasons to justify a new encoding. Just saying >>that somebody wants it in XML because their font won't show up is >>insufficient justification, especially when the repercussions in the >>scholarly communities who actually use this stuff could be disruptive. >> >See posts by Deborah Anderson and Paul James Cowie. Is that enough? Or >are they not expert enough or something?
I've read and responded to their emails here. I do not impugne their expertise; we just disagree on this issue. Obviously one can find experts on both sides of this debate. My hope is that the encoding experts will make the right decision based on input from various experts. Having said that, I do not recall anyone, still promoting this proposal, having addressed some of the more serious specific objections I, and others, have raised. For example, even in this email response of yours, you did not address the one specific issue I raised concerning competing encodings in Dead Sea Biblical scrolls. This would be a real issue in a VERY ACTIVE field of research; and as such it should not just be glossed over, or even ignored, in the decision-making process. Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi