Re: N2525 and N2526

2002-11-26 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2002.11.24, 21:14, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: N2526 CJK Stroke Clarification NB Singapore - James Seng 2002-11-24 http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2526.doc Hm. Is is OK to distributite documentation in such a proprieatry and virus-prone format when a safe and

Re: N2525 and N2526

2002-11-26 Thread Doug Ewell
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt wrote: Hm. Is is OK to distributite documentation in such a proprieatry and virus-prone format when a safe and platform-independent equivalent (.rtf) is readily avaliable?... In fact, the majority of WG2 documents seem to be

RE: N2525 and N2526

2002-11-26 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
Hi. (Indeed, HTML is probably the format I'd use to distribute such a document, if I didn't have access to Distiller.) Who needs Distiller to generate PDF? Ghostscript works fine... I think PDF is a format readable on every platform today (if you don't use new features like movies etc. which

Re: N2525 and N2526

2002-11-26 Thread John Cowan
Doug Ewell scripsit: In theory RTF is more platform-independent than Word format, but in practice I really don't know how many non-Windows systems are able to read RTF. Ted runs on most Unix systems, and RTF is Word for the Mac's native format. -- Híggledy-pìggledy / XML programmers

RE: N2525 and N2526

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Everson
WG2 prefers PDF, and that's all there is to it. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

Re: mixed-script writing systems

2002-11-26 Thread Peter_Constable
On 11/21/2002 10:11:41 AM John Cowan wrote: Case *mapping* is informative, and it's perfectly all right for language A to claim that the lower-case form of squiggle is squoggle whereas language C makes it squaggle instead. No, case mapping is now normative, as indicated in

New Contributions for meeting 43 in Tokyo

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Everson
Here some new contributions for meeting 43 including ones from the IRG. N2535 Ideograph Unification IRG 2002-11-21 http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2535.pdf N2534 IRG Radical Classification IRG 2002-11-21 http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2534.pdf N2533A Attachment to N2533 - StrokeC

Re: mixed-script writing systems

2002-11-26 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Dean Snyder asked: ... What it comes down to is the fact that for historic scripts in particular, there are no defined criteria that would enable us to simply *discover* the right answer regarding the identity of scripts. To a certain extent, the encoding committees need to make arbitrary