Re: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

2017-04-07 Thread Michael Everson
On 7 Apr 2017, at 11:01, Richard Wordingham wrote: > > Of course, if U+25A1 WHITE SQUARE is the outline of a square, it then seems > odd that a valid presentation form should be just a spacing glyph, as seems > to be preferred for chess boards! I suppose this

Re: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

2017-04-07 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 13:17:36 -0700 Asmus Freytag wrote: > While it appears possible, after Khaled's demonstration, I still > think that the use of "white ink" instead of the "white" parts of a > character being treated "transparent" is far from standard text > presentation.

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-07 Thread Rebecca T
> while evidently there are users who need to send BROCCOLI to one another, > nobody but nobody needs to send an 8 x 8 chessboard matrix in a tweet. Get > it? I simply must disagree; sending a textual chessboard sounds awesome! A twitter bot that plays chess with you and shows you a graphical

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-07 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 4/7/2017 4:33 PM, Michael Everson wrote: On 8 Apr 2017, at 00:28, Rebecca T <637...@gmail.com> wrote: while evidently there are users who need to send BROCCOLI to one another, nobody but nobody needs to send an 8 x 8 chessboard matrix in a tweet. Get it? I simply must disagree; sending a

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-07 Thread Michael Everson
On 7 Apr 2017, at 23:17, Christoph Päper wrote: >> The only connection this has with emoji is that it uses the variation >> selector system. > > As I've shown, that's not the *only* connection. Christoph, YOU ARE WRONG. Emoji as a special relationship with

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-07 Thread Michael Everson
On 6 Apr 2017, at 18:43, Philippe Verdy wrote: >> It’s an argument for legibility. > > And an argument for rendering purpose only; Why? Shouldn’t human beings be able to read things that are rendered? > the actual 2D layout of chess diagrams is not part of Unicode The

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-07 Thread Michael Everson
On 8 Apr 2017, at 00:28, Rebecca T <637...@gmail.com> wrote: > > while evidently there are users who need to send BROCCOLI to one another, > > nobody but nobody needs to send an 8 x 8 chessboard matrix in a tweet. Get > > it? > > I simply must disagree; sending a textual chessboard sounds

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-07 Thread Philippe Verdy
2017-04-06 18:26 GMT+02:00 Kent Karlsson : > > Den 2017-04-06 03:05, skrev "Michael Everson" : > > > On 6 Apr 2017, at 01:54, Kent Karlsson > wrote: > > > - some bidi fix [preferably making the box/border drawing

Re: PETSCII mapping?

2017-04-07 Thread William_J_G Overington
> At some point this should be taken off the main list since discussion will > get very detailed very quickly. > I agree. How should we get all the interested parties together? > Everybody interested, raise your hand Yes please. William

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-07 Thread Christoph Päper
Garth Wallace : > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Christoph Päper > wrote: > > > Although Michael Everson readily dismisses any connection to emojis, (...) > > normal emoji design actually matches "diagram" notation quite nicely in > > that all >