Re: informative due to variation across langauges

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 19:45:13 EDT


On 06/15/2001 06:29:51 PM "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" wrote:

>> Can anyone give me a specific example of why Line Breaking or East Asian
>> Width properties aren't normative?
>
>Why be more specific then there are a lot of people who think they might
>possibly have made TOO MUCH normative and do not want to make things
>unchangeable that might be in error or might need to change later?

But normative explicitly does *not* mean unchangeable.

- Peter

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