It has been suggested to me that I provide a few C.V. details to the group, to help introduce my background that may be of some use in FOP work, so here are a few details. If anyone would like a fuller bio, let me know and I will happily send.
- began working with TeX78 in the late 70's; - received $2.56 check from Don Knuth (DEK) in 1986 for first bug report on Metafont 84; - in 1990, joined Unicode consortium, eventually serving as Technical Director from 1993 to 1999, during which I wrote the Unicode 1.0 and 2.0 sections on Arabic and Indic scripts; - in 1991, wrote implementation of Tex Line Breaking algorithm in Scheme using continuation passing style, discovering some potential inefficiencies, but not bugs, later adopted by DEK; - in 1993, joined Stonehand, Cambridge, MA, as partner and VP of Engineering to build Japanese Typesetting system for SMI and Morisawa & Company Tokyo; implemented complex script typographic features to support Arabic and Indic scripts; - consultant to Apple on development of TrueType GX Font extensions; - consultant to Microsoft on development of OpenType Advanced Typography extensions; - consultant to Microsoft on design and implementation of WinNT Unicode support layers; - consultant to Decotype on advanced Arabic typographic font design and systems; - co-author of RFC 2070, Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language - participated as US member to ISO SC18/WG8 in the development of DSSSL, which was the predecessor of XSLT and XSL FO; - consulted to James Clark about the design of XSLT and XSL-FO; - participated as member of W3C XSL-FO SG, leading up to the publishing of XSL FO 1.0; - retained by IBM Research (Doug Lovell, wiith Sharon Adler, and Anders Berglund) to implement major portions of the IBM XSL Formatting Object Composer <http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xfc/> in 2000-2001; implemented the entire support for XSL FO 1.0 Tables, including the full CSS2 collapsing border model; Regards, Glenn
