On 05/31/2002 04:45:00 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>This discussion seems to be related to the digital divide. > >Suppose that someone has access to a PC which has Windows 95 or Windows 98 >and has Microsoft Word 97 installed. The person wishes to produce a print >out of a transcription of a piece of text from an 18th Century English book, >by keying in a copy of the text and then printing it out. The person finds >that the text has a ct ligature in it. How does the person produce the >desired finished result? >I feel that the Unicode system should be available for all, not just for >people who are on the money side of the digital divide. >If indeed the existence of a list of private use >area code points for ligatures in some way causes some problem of which I am >yet to be aware, I will take such action as I feel is both reasonable and >within my abilities to avoid those problems being caused. >A problem for which I am trying to find a solution is as to how someone with >only everyday PC type facilities can obtain software which can set the >individual parameters of the pHYs chunk of a PNG file, so as to indicate a >non-square pixel. This is needed so as to satisfy section 15.1.1 of the >DVB-MHP (Digital Video Broadcasting - Multimedia Home Platform)... None of what you discuss (to the extent that I grasped it -- I did not take the time to read yet another of your long postings word for word) seems to me to have anything to do with what I have heard referred to as the digital divide. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
