On Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:33 AM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 01:18 +0200 2003-08-09, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > Such break in a middle of a multiple width diacritic exist in some > > notations, and are not considered "horrible typography". Just look > > at musical notations where a upper horizontal parenthesis > > is used to group some elements [...] > > Music setting is not typesetting, and that kind of music > representation is outside of the scope of the Unicode Standard. This was just an example, but a significant one which is also used in text with similarities; look at box grouping characters, acting like parentheses in hieroglyphs, or the thick line above characters used to mark their "color", and even about the underlining style (not really plain text, but very close to it. OK music setting is not text setting, but there are many links between various notational systems, where signs, symbols or marks are imported from each other, that would just simply demonstrate that diacritics may be actually broken and splitted across lines, without necessarily be thought as an "horrible" typesetting. Line breaking by itself is not plain-text. It's a rendering effect more or less described, enabled, forced or disabled for the representation of the rest of the plain text. If one thinks about it, there may be other representations that exhibit a glyph for a puctuation mark and no other specific code defined as it's device specific and in many cases unpredictable. It could even be completely removed from a Braille or Teletype strip band used to represent the same text, and Unicode can be used in other contexts than just text setting on a bidimensional surface. Typesetting rules are not Unicode rules, so they are also out of scope of the standard, and so I see no good reason to qualify as "horrible" a possible typesettig representation of a perfectly valid and nondefective Unicode encoded sequence. I admit that you are extremely interested in the correct typesetting of Unicode due to your huge activities in the design of fonts, and I won't criticize your expertize in that domain, but this domain is not exclusive... -- Philippe. Spams non tol�r�s: tout message non sollicit� sera rapport� � vos fournisseurs de services Internet.
