On Fri, Apr 01 2016 at 16:54 CEST, asm...@ix.netcom.com writes: [...]
> If you were truly interested in creating a resource like an index over > character descriptions in proposals, you would need to expect to > source your own merry gang of helpers and find a way to organize them. > The easiest way to motivate people is when the result is useful to > them. That's why I keep coming back with my suggestion for a focused > effort. My goal is from the very beginning to describe characters useful for encoding historical Polish texts, at least the most important and/or not obvious ones. My recent paper http://bc.klf.uw.edu.pl/480/ is in Polish, but you can have a look and be surprised by some characters needed to encode Polish texts and metatexts (linguistic or lexicographical descriptions). > > You could think of it as a pilot project. Rather than tackling all > possible characters Actually I never had such a full index in mind. > you would focus on some subset that shares some > commonality, perhaps Latin extensions. You would have to solve many of > the problems that Ken elaborated, but if they have an (at least) > acceptable solution, then you would have delivered something useful, > and provided a model on which others can build research into other > repertoires. > > I'll step out of this discussion now, because as much as I would have > wanted access to an index like you describe for another project I am > involved in, I don't have time or good ideas to contribute at this > moment. > > A./ > OK, I understand. I'm still looking for suggestions about a suitable software. An attempt to use BitBucket wiki appeared so impractical that I had to abort it after describing just a few characters: https://bitbucket.org/jsbien/unicode4polish/wiki/ Best regards Janusz -- , Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) jsb...@uw.edu.pl, jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/