Hello,
I'm following the Thai discussion with interest, since complex Hebrew manuscripts also
have major stacking problems.............
In the current Unicode Standard, is there a numeric limit to how many
things---multiple systems of vowel points, text annotation systems, etc----can be
stacked onto a base character?
If some of the stacked items REALLY belong to the base character, but others are
actually "attached" to a specific syllable or the word involved, they just appear
above a base character, what does Unicode do?
Is this information somewhere in the Unicode 3.0 book?
Hebrew-Aramaic script has ancient reading annotation systems [like the Koran (Unicode
3.0, p. 394, 06D6-06ED) and the Rg Veda], so it has its own sets of
syntactic/semantic/prosodic text markups--3 regional, 1 Samaritan.
The main computerized Hebrew manuscript, the Leningrad Codex, is actually considerably
simpler than other Hebrew manuscripts.
I'm getting ready to look at the complexity problem this week.
Elaine Keown
Philadelphia
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