Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text (from Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters)

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Aug 06 2010 - 12:41:48 CDT

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    On 8/6/2010 2:03 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
    > On Thursday, 5 August 2010, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:
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    >>> I am thinking of where a poet might specify an ending version of a glyph at the end of the last word on some lines, yet not on others, for poetic effect. I think that it would be good if one could specify that in plain text.
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    >> Why can't a poet find a poetic means of doing that, instead of depending on a standards organization to provide a standard means of doing so in plain text? Seems kind of anti-poetic to me. ;-)
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    >> --Ken
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    > Well, I was just suggesting an example. I am not an expert on poetry.
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    What you mean are artistic or stylistic variants.

    These have certain problems, see here for an explanation:
    http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221#p221

    A./
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