From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 09:09:18 CST
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On
> Behalf Of UList@dfa-mail.com
> > By wise thinking, the encoding threshold in Unicode stops short of
> > paleography; if it did not we would have to encode hundreds of
cuneiform
> > paleographical variation sets ALONG WITH the hundreds and thousands
of
> > other paleographical variation sets associated with the rest of the
> > world's scripts.
>
> I believe I have demonstrated that it can, very reasonably, be done at
> least
> for some script continuums.
>
> In fact I will be doing it -- whether you like it or not -- with
archaic
> Greek, simply by using multiple fonts.
>
> It would be more convenient if I could store those multiple sets of
glyphs
> in
> one font, and access them from a Web page somehow.
Let's establish some expectations here. I have been giving you general
information on things that are possible using Unicode or advanced font
technologies, including the use of OpenType Language-System tags. Do not
expect either Unicode or OpenType to be revised to support electronic
textual representation of facsimiles of paleographic documents. Some
things may be done to assist paleographers in their work, such as
encoding new characters or scripts, defining some VS sequences or
registering some new OT Language-System tags, but only within limits,
and certainly not in response to an individual request.
> > Besides, NO ONE can do paleography using computer fonts;
Certainly not using only computer (or non-digital) fonts.
Peter Constable
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