From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 23:56:30 CST
Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote:
> What *could* be appropriate for encoding as characters, from the
> fields of paleography and epigraphy here, would be entire symbols
> indicating quadrant damage -- in other words, some thematic take on
> sets of quadrant symbols such as U+2596..U+259F, U+25E7, U+25E8,
> U+25F0..U+25F3, etc, which might reflect use in text to *discuss*
> glyph damage and lacunae, etc. This would be quite different from
> trying to encode a bunch of format controls to actually make
> the text *render* with damage and lacunae.
Yeah. Something like the Ideographic Description characters, which
describe the relative position of the component parts of a Han
character. These could be used to describe the missing or damaged parts
in a way that allows the researcher to visualize the glyph.
I like it. Easy to implement, preserves the paleographic information
Dean wants, doesn't require much from rendering engines.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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