> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Philippe Verdy
> At end of my response to Antoine Leca, I suggested something which may merit > some comments: Does that imply that it might also *not* merit comments? > > What is clear is that there's no way to enable these features explicitly in > plain-text files, if there's no standard format control in Unicode to enable > these OpenType font features. May be these could become new "characters" to > allocate in plane 14? This sounds suspiciously like "courtyard codes". (Wonders to self: Are "Philippe Verdy" and "William Overington" aliases for the same person? :-) > What I mean here is that there's currently no defined way to convey in plain > text files the intended rendering "features" that are now common in OpenType > fonts and engines. Nor should there be, any more than there should be ways in plain text to indicate typeface, point size, style, etc. There is a class of representations for such information called "rich text", and such representation has been and will very likely continue to be beyond the scope of plain text. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
