> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hudson > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 1:21 AM > To: 'Unicode Mailing List' > Subject: Re: No Invisible Character - NBSP at the start of a word > > > Jony Rosenne wrote: > > > One of the problems in this context is the phrase "original > meaning". What > > we have is a juxtaposition of two words, which is indicated > by writing the > > letters of one with the vowels of the other. In many cases > this does not > > cause much of a problem, because the vowels fit the > letters, but sometimes > > they do not. Except for the most frequent cases, there > normally is a note in > > the margin with the alternate letters - I hope everyone > agrees that notes in > > the margin are not plain text. > > Jony, what do you think plain text is? Why should the > arrangement of text on a page as a > marginal note be considered any differently from text > anywhere else *in its encoding*? Are > you suggesting that Unicode is only relevant to ... what? > totally unformatted text in a > text editor?
Basically, yes. Except for the control codes in Unicode - spaces, line feed, carriage return, etc. To indicate formatting one uses markup. Jony > > John Hudson > > -- > > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com > Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Currently reading: > The Peasant of the Garonne, by Jacques Maritain > Art and faith, by Jacques Maritain & Jean Cocteau > Difficulites, by Ronald Knox & Arnold Lunn > > >
