Re: Fwd: Re: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

[Mark E. Shoulson]

On 12/08/03 14:16, Peter Constable wrote:

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Of Mark E. Shoulson
   

(and now I contradict myself with a counterexample.  In
http://omega.enstb.org/yannis/pdf/biblical-hebrew94.pdf, Yannis
Haralambous notes--correctly--that when typesetting the Hebrew Bible,
letters that are written small hang from the top line and have
normal-sized vowels below them (and the vowels are below the baseline
   

of
 

the normal text))
   

It might be possible to develop technologies that allowed correct
positioning in particular cases where different sizes were involved, but
I think we still have some more basic problems to solve, like finishing
getting implementations that offer basic support for all of the scripts
in Unicode 4.0.
 

Yes.  And this business of small letters and normal vowels and whatnot 
isn't "plain text" anyway, so it should be the problem of the larger 
rendering system and probably not even just the font.  Certainly not 
Unicode's problem.

~mark