Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-02 Thread John Cowan
Doug Ewell scripsit: I've never understood why writing Hebrew or Arabic left-to-right is called visual order anyway. These are RTL scripts; they are supposed to be not only written, but also read, right-to-left. Wouldn't a reader of Hebrew or Arabic consider RTL to BE the visual order? Of

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ? Combinable accents and vowels needed.

2004-11-02 Thread kefas
RtL-characters are a major break-through in Unicode! Please see inserted remarks to your comments! On Monday 01 November 2004 10:16 pm, you wrote: From: kefas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inserting unicode/basic-hebrew reults in a convinient RtL, right-to-left, advance of the cursor, but the

Re: basic-hebrew RtL-space ?

2004-11-02 Thread kefas
See inserted remarks. On Sunday 31 October 2004 05:05 am, you wrote: If you're going to quote an rtl phrase in an ltr context, you want to use an embedding. In plaintext, this would mean putting an RLE (U+202B) character before the phrase and a PDF (U+202C)after it. That is easily done by

not font designers?

2004-11-02 Thread E. Keown
Elaine Keown Seattle Hi, Supposedly this list has 600 people. Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font designers? And are any of your corpus linguists, text database people, or maybe database designers? Thanks, Elaine

Public Review Issues update

2004-11-02 Thread Rick McGowan
The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page: http://www.unicode.org/review/ Review periods for the new item closes on November 8, 2004. Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.

Re: not font designers?

2004-11-02 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
I'm trying to be a font designer, but I wouldn't say that's my profession (nobody's ever paid me for a font, though I'm hoping to change that within the next few weeks). I guess I occasionally design fonts, but I'm a computer programmer/researcher/unlicensed brain mainly. I've used and

Looking for the UDHR in Thai

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Muller
I am using the various versions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm as test material. Unfortunately, the Thai version is an image, and the resolution is not good enough for me to even attempt to retype the document. Can somebody point me to

Re: not font designers?

2004-11-02 Thread John Cowan
Elaine Keown scripsit: Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font designers? And are any of your corpus linguists, text database people, or maybe database designers? FWIW, I am none of those things (I've designed a database now and then, but I'm hardly a database designer). --

Re: not font designers?

2004-11-02 Thread Doug Ewell
E. Keown k underscore isoetc at yahoo dot com wrote: Supposedly this list has 600 people. Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font designers? I contributed about 200 or 250 glyphs to the bitmapped font built into SC UniPad, but on no account does that make me a font designer, much