Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-22 Thread Julian Bradfield
Asmus wrote: The Unicode Standard easily uses hundreds of fonts for the code charts, from a variety of sources. Despite what should theoretically work, not all systems can actually print every code chart. Some users cannot print certain of the existing PDFs on their systems, and POD providers

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-22 Thread Ken Whistler
On 6/21/2012 11:22 PM, Julian Bradfield wrote: So, as long as code charts create production issues, print-on-demand for them is effectively not feasible. My hard-copy of the code charts was printed by Lulu - they're too big to print out on my office laserprinters! The only issue was joining

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-22 Thread vanisaac
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

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-22 Thread John H. Jenkins
vanis...@boil.afraid.org 於 2012年6月22日 下午3:49 寫道: Wait a minute. Isn't 6.2 just adding the Turkish Lira? Does that really take the chart people more than about 10 minutes? The only *character* change is the Turkish lira. There are numerous updates to UAXes and other parts of the

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-22 Thread Ken Whistler
On 6/22/2012 3:55 PM, John H. Jenkins wrote: Wait a minute. Isn't 6.2 just adding the Turkish Lira? Does that really take the chart people more than about 10 minutes? The only *character* change is the Turkish lira. There are numerous updates to UAXes and other parts of the

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Everson
On 21 Jun 2012, at 09:47, Raymond Mercier wrote: While I am very glad to have this, I really do wonder why there was not a full publication of Unicode 6 or 6.1 from the corporation itself, with all the charts, as we have had with Unicode 1 to 5. Surely there is a market for this ? Perhaps

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-21 Thread vanisaac
From: Michael Everson everson_at_evertype.com On 21 Jun 2012, at 09:47, Raymond Mercier wrote: While I am very glad to have this, I really do wonder why there was not a full publication of Unicode 6 or 6.1 from the corporation itself, with all the charts, as we have had with Unicode 1 to

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-21 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2012-06-21, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote: On 21 Jun 2012, at 09:47, Raymond Mercier wrote: While I am very glad to have this, I really do wonder why there was not a full publication of Unicode 6 or 6.1 from the corporation itself, with all the charts, as we have had with

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-21 Thread Raymond Mercier
Michael Everson: Perhaps less than us character mavens would imagine. Books don't publish themselves, and publishing takes resources of various kinds. Julian Bradfield: Not much, if they use the Lulu route, as they already have an account set up. An hour of somebody's time should do it. And at

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-21 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
At the price of this lulu edition, I would have happily bought also an edition with charts and standard annexes, scaled proportionally. Would it be possible to know the sales figures of this edition? Only to understand if the effort for the pubblication has been worthwhile. And the sales

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Everson
On 21 Jun 2012, at 13:26, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: And the sales figures of the previous versions? Everybody, The Powers That Be are looking into it, and discussion on this list isn't going to provide new information unavailable to The Powers. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Re: Unicode Core

2012-06-21 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 6/21/2012 3:22 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: Not much, if they use the Lulu route, as they already have an account set up. An hour of somebody's time should do it. And at a Lulu price, there'll be a lot more of a market than at an Addison-Wesley price! The Unicode Standard easily uses