On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:00:09PM +0000, William_J_G Overington wrote: > >> Exact semantics of formatting characters aside, it is best to define plain > >> text as a stateless stream. The characters you're proposing require a > >> decoder to keep state, therefore they won't do. <TIC>At most you may ask > >> for
> *U+E1001 COMBINING ITALICIZER > *U+E1003 COMBINING BOLDIFIER > after all, we already have U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE and U+0336 COMBINING > LONG STROKE OVERLAY for <u> and <s> resp, thus adding their counterparts for > <i> and <b> will merely complete the set. </TIC> > > COMBINING EMBOLDENER, surely. ;-) > So, if that were implemented, then to typeset, say, the word astrolabe within > a plain text file, in italics, one would need to use nine instances of the > COMBINING ITALICIZER, one instance after each letter of the word astrolabe. > That would be fine and the characters discussed would be, in my opinion, two > useful additions to Unicode. > If a two word phrase were to be typeset within a plain text file then each > letter of the two words would need to have an instance of the COMBINING > ITALICIZER after each letter of the word. Would one add an instance after the > space character that is between the words? > 27 March 2015 Guys, it is just a 4 days wait. Then we can discuss the last question in depth until a consensus is reached! Ilya _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
