At 11:10 -0400 2002-09-26, Robert wrote:
The proper encoding of those letters is with *cedilla* (yup -- the
French kind...); thus, c-cedilla, g-cedilla, s-cedilla, t-cedilla,
and so on!
The proper encoding of the relevant ones in Romanian is s-comma-below
and t-comma-below.
The proper
At 10:28 -0500 2002-09-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You described Latin characters; are they using Latin script
orthographically, or just for transliteration? Is Cyrillic still used
orthographically?
In 1995 a book Pravila orfografii i punktuacii gagauzskogo jazyka
was published in Russian in
At 17:14 -0700 2002-09-26, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
I am not suggesting this for bibliographic work, just wondering: for the
bibliographic work I feel that a new character of a COMBINING DOUBLE
INVERTED BREVE WITH DOT ABOVE might be a good solution.
Possibly. It is certainly a simple
At 04:34 + 2002-09-27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some apps won't display a glyph from a specified font if its corresponding
Unicode Ranges Supported bit in the OS/2 table isn't set. So, font
developers producing fonts intended to be used with such apps set the
corresponding bit even if only
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Actually, my point was specifically that *part* of the infrastructure is
already present, at least in OpenType, but not *all*, either in OpenType
(meaning of language in the OT spec needs to be clarified, and
relationships between these tags and the language tags
[Still off-topic, but I'm hopeful that progress can be made, so am
continuing a little farther]
On 09/27/2002 10:26:36 AM William Overington wrote:
XML is the way to go.
Maybe, maybe not. The issue of U+003C being used to mean LESS-THAN SIGN
in
documents which mix ordinary text and markup
Can anyone clarify this one:
In Microsoft page here :
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OTSPEC/indicot/default.htm
says Malayalam chillu glyphs are formed when inputting
(consonant)+(virama). Can I use another formation for chillus, I
want to use (consonant)+(virama)+(ZWJ) any problem?
And any
At 12:24 PM 9/27/2002 +0100, William Overington wrote:
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
Peter_Constable at sil dot org wrote:
BTW, my mail client (Lotus Notes, for better or worse) reports what
time in *my* time zone an author wrote the given message. Such
reporting of time in international communications is problematic;
time zones need to be stated explicitly. We discovered
At 12:23 PM 9/27/2002 +0100, William Overington wrote:
Are you perhaps trying to make a deduction by the fallacy of the
undistributed middle, along the following lines.
William's need is a markup system.
XML is a markup system.
William's need is XML.
I think what is being suggested is not
Marco Cimarosti marco dot cimarosti at essetre dot it wrote:
He said that he didn't understand how this detail could help us but,
anyway, he obtained the child's name and address from the parent:
Daniel Zubeispiel
Hauptkirchestrasse, 26
Zürich, Switzerland
Is this a pseudonym? I am
Michael Everson scripsit:
I don't see why you wouldn't just let the accent positioning=20
properties sort this out. In general if you are stacking accents the=20
higher ones appear above and centred over the lower ones.
Do they not?
I would expect later accents to be above earlier ones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
There is no necessary relationship
and, indeed, it is possible to conceive of a user wanting to apply, for
instance, the typographic conventions of German to a language other than German.
Indeed, if one is doing early modern Swedish, that is exactly what one
Michael Everson said:
I don't understand why a particular bit has to be set in
some table. Why can't the OS just accept what's in the font?
The main reason is performance. If an application has to check the font
cmap for every character in a file, it slows down reading the file.
Accordingly
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:19:58PM -0700, Murray Sargent wrote:
Michael Everson said:
I don't understand why a particular bit has to be set in
some table. Why can't the OS just accept what's in the font?
The main reason is performance. If an application has to check the font
cmap for
On 09/28/2002 04:47:49 AM tiro wrote:
'Language system' (not 'language') in the OpenType specification actually
means
*writing* system, i.e. a particular set of orthographic/typographic
conventions
associated with the use of a particular script. 'Language system' is a
misnomer -- an historical
Another alternative is to check the font at install time, and then make sure
that the bits are set correctly.
Mark
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