From: Ken Whistler <kenw_at_sybase.com> > To echo what Michael said here, the editors are looking into this. > > We did, in fact, do the work to volumize the entire set of charts, including > all of CJK, for POD, and even made volume covers and title pages. > However, it turned out that Lulu had production issues for at least some > of those volumes. So at the last minute we had to limit the POD to > just the core specification, which didn't cause printing problems. > > It was an interesting experiment, and we learned some lessons from it. > But we simply do not have the bandwidth to finish wrestling with it for > Unicode 6.1 right now. (The Unicode 6.2 beta is underway, and the people > involved with charts need to focus on getting Unicode 6.2 charts prepared.) > > I anticipate that once Unicode 6.2 is done, the editors may take another > crack at this, and manage to create volumes for charts with settings that > won't make Lulu production printers crash and burn. But all in good time. > > --Ken
Wait a minute. Isn't 6.2 just adding the Turkish Lira? Does that really take the chart people more than about 10 minutes? -Van PS, interesting that you had production issues on doing the code charts as print-on-demand. I guess that's not quite as straightforward a process as you would think.