John Hudson wrote on 07/29/2003 12:36:01 PM: > Perhaps you would like to expand on this? What kind of markup? How would it > interract with fonts and rendering engines?
It seems to me it would not, unless application software were explicitly written to support the markup conventions and use some appropriate interface into the font/rendering engine. To keep things simple, that interface could be in the form of font features. Alternately, it could perhaps be done in terms of specific orderings of marks during rendering. Either way, the application software would have to be aware of whichever interface was established as the norm. And that raises a big issue: can we get universal agreement on the app - font/rendering interface, or are we going to see different vendors supporting proprietary solutions? And what about interchange? I believe from a previous post that when Jony says "markup" he means either markup or rich text -- i.e. plain text plus *something* else. Can we get universal agreement on what that something else is? Not to mention the most obvious concern: all this only works in apps that have been explicitly written to support Biblical Hebrew. That's really going to make users happy. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
