On 10/29/2018 8:06 PM, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
could be typed on old-style mechanical typewriters. Quintessential
plain-text, that.
Nope. Typewriters were regularly used for underscoring and for
strikethrough, both of which are *styling* of text, and not plain text.
The mere fact tha
Asmus Freytag wrote,
> Nevertheless, I think the use of devices like combining underlines
> and superscript letters in plain text are best avoided.
That's probably true according to the spirit of the underlying encoding
principles. But hasn't that genie already left the bottle?
People writ
For the case of "Mister" vs. "Magister", the (double) underlining is not
just a stylistic option but conveys semantics as an explicit abbreviation
mark !
We are here at the line between what is pure visual encoding (e.g. using
superscript letters), and logical encoding (as done eveywhere else in
un
On 29/10/18 20:29, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
[…]
> ObMagister: I agree that trying to reflect every decorative nuance of
> handwriting is not what plain text is all about.
Agreed.
> (I also disagree with
> those who insist that superscripted abbreviations are required for
> correct spelling i
Richard Wordingham wrote:
>> I like palaeographic renderings of text very much indeed, and in fact
>> remain in conflict with members of the UTC (who still, alas, do NOT
>> communicate directly about such matters, but only in duelling ballot
>> comments) about some actually salient representation
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:42:04 +
Michael Everson via Unicode wrote:
> I like palaeographic renderings of text very much indeed, and in fact
> remain in conflict with members of the UTC (who still, alas, do NOT
> communicate directly about such matters, but only in duelling ballot
> comments) ab
On 10/28/2018 11:50 PM, Martin J. Dürst
via Unicode wrote:
On 2018/10/29 05:42, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote:
This is no different the Irish name McCoy which can be written MᶜCoy where the raising of the c is actually just decorative, though per
On Mon, Oct 29 2018 at 7:57 GMT, James Kass wrote:
> Janusz S. Bień asked,
>
>> Do you claim that in the ground-truth for HWR the
>> squiggle and raising doesn't matter?
>
> Not me!
I know, sorry if my previous mail was confusing.
> "McCoy", "M=ͨCoy", and "M-ͨCoy" are three different ways of
> w
Janusz S. Bień asked,
> Do you claim that in the ground-truth for HWR the
> squiggle and raising doesn't matter?
Not me! "McCoy", "M=ͨCoy", and "M-ͨCoy" are three different ways of
writing the same surname. If I were entering plain text data from an
old post card, I'd try to keep the data
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