----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Pentzlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 30 januari 2002 09:42 Subject: Re: Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur)
> PR> I think most of these cases, including > PR> the Fraktur problem, deal with _typesetting_ rules and should thus be > PR> left to _typesetting_ software, i.e. the now-famous "higher level > PR> protocol". > > The question is, are typesetting rules "part of the script"? > > (I mean rules in the sense of obligatory regulations, not guidelines). > If yes, (in my opinion) the plain text must carry the information that is > needed to follow them. If no, their execution can be left to higher level > protocols (which then have to decide whether a word is a foreign word > [to be set in Roman letters] or a name [to be set in Fraktur letters], > such at least according to German typesetting rules). In this case: * The program would have to know which language it's dealing with, and which spelling rules are used in the text (in Swedish: free spelling (as preferred), pre-1905, and post-1905). *It would have to know every loan word and personal name. Here's a difficult case: * "Et:" Latin word. Used in Swedish in cases such as "et cetera." Written in antiqua * "Et:" old spelling for "ett" (a, one). Written in Fraktur. How would the program know which of them I'm referring to? Stefan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
