Re: annotations (was: NamesList.txt as data source)

2016-03-14 Thread Philippe Verdy
is the term "exponentially" really appropriate ? the NamesList file is not so large, and the grow would remain linear. Anyway, this file (current CSV format or XML format) does not need to be part of the core UCD files, they can be in a separate download for people needing it. One benefit I

Re: annotations (was: NamesList.txt as data source)

2016-03-13 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:03:20 -0600, Doug Ewell wrote: > My point is that of J.S. Choi and Janusz Bień: the problem with > declaring NamesList off-limits is that it does contain information that > is either: > > • not available in any other UCD file, or > • available, but only in comments (like

Re: annotations (was: NamesList.txt as data source)

2016-03-13 Thread Doug Ewell
My point is that of J.S. Choi and Janusz Bień: the problem with declaring NamesList off-limits is that it does contain information that is either: • not available in any other UCD file, or • available, but only in comments (like the MAS mappings), which aren't supposed to be parsed either.

Re: annotations (was: NamesList.txt as data source)

2016-03-13 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 07:55:24 +0100, Janusz S. Bień wrote: > For this purpose he wrote also a converter from NamesList format to XML That goes straight into the direction I suggested past year as a beta feedback item[1], but I never thought that it could be so simple. > I understand there is

annotations (was: NamesList.txt as data source)

2016-03-12 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Thu, Mar 10 2016 at 22:40 CET, kenwhist...@att.net writes: > The *reason* that NamesList.txt exists at all is to drive the tool, > unibook, that formats the full Unicode code charts for posting. [...] On Fri, Mar 11 2016 at 3:13 CET, asm...@ix.netcom.com writes: > On 3/10/2016 5:49 PM, "J.