On 10/17/2011 1:23 AM, Peter Cyrus wrote:
Perhaps the idea of something embedded in the text that then controls the display of the subsequent run of text is the very definition of "markup", whether or not that markup is a special character or an ASCII sequence like</span><span style="gait:xxx;"> or</span><span style="font:xxx;">.
Yep. And FWIW, rather than invent a new conscript for what you are attempting to do, my recommendation would be to simply use a strictly defined phonetic subset of the already-encoded Unicode characters, and then use XML markup to define gait. Your marked-up text would be more voluminous, but the chances of it displaying decently and being processable with widely available tools would be much better. --Ken
