Your track record is not at all bad -- and I never mean to imply that. You have definitely made good contributions to the standard-- and have shown great dedication to the efforts of getting minority and scholarly scripts encoded.
The issue I have had is that once you get convinced that X is "self-evident", you sometimes seem to find it hard to articulate arguments, beyond repeating the equivalent of "I'm an expert, therefore X is true". Mark P.S. However, you do really need to stop switching email recipients; you've done that several times to me recently. I had sent that response on a closed email list, but you then toss it out to the public list. The original message was: > At 22:54 -0700 2004-05-02, Mark Davis wrote: > >Thanks. No, the intent is not to be binding; however, if there are any other > >factors that would contribute to a decision, please let me know and I will > >include them. > > Sometimes it is hard for me to quantify or qualify my instincts on > these matters. I am sure some of you will dislike my saying so. But > sometimes self-evident is self-evident.... > -- > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com > > __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com â ààààààààààààààààààààà â ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 2004 May 03 10:31 Subject: Re: UTC Agenda Item: A Script Model > At 08:47 -0700 2004-05-03, Mark Davis wrote: > >More explicitly: "But sometimes self-evident to Michael is self-evident to > >Michael ...." > > My track record is not all that bad, Mark. I do try my best. > -- > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com > >
