Italic could be implemented using an OpenType font. Map the roman glyphs. Do not map the italic glyphs. Use glyph substitution rules in the font to access the italic glyphs if and only if a two character sequence occurs where the second of the two characters is the COMBINING ITALICIZER character.
William Overington 28 March 2015 ----Original message---- From : [email protected] Date : 27/03/2015 - 16:21 (GMTST) To : [email protected] Subject : Re: Plain text (from Re: Avoidance variants) So one of the concerns I have is the implication that "interesting" styling comprises: 1. bold 2. italic If formatting characters were encoded to support these two styling options, right away there would be calls to expand the set with: 3. underlining 4. strikeout 5. superscript 6. subscript 7. font face 8. font size 9. font color 10. highlighting 11. character spacing 12. line spacing 13. margins 14. page size 15. all the other styling options that word processors provide The proposed, simplified solution doesn't scale. It's the same as one of the concerns I have with encoding localizable sentences as characters. There aren't 20 or 50 or 100 sentences that people might want localized, but crores of them. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸 _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
