- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:48:39 -0500
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Hi, Richard- Thanks very much for the suggested additions, that is most helpful. I have added them all, as requested, and marked the issue as closed, with your disposition as satisfied. Please let us know if this works for you. Thanks- -Doug Richard Ishida wrote (on 11/3/08 11:45 AM): > Here are some suggestions for wording in 10.2: > > [1] Remove the parens from "(Note that for proper rendering of many > languages, ligatures are required for certain character > combinations.)" and tack on to the end "and are not optional > typographic features. For example, this is the case for most > languages throughout South and South East Asia." > > [2] Add another bullet point, perhaps in 3rd position, that says > something along the lines of > > [[ Context-sensitive glyph positioning - In many scripts, the precise > positioning of the glyph for a given character (especially > diacritics) will vary according to the visual context. For example, > Thai tone marks are rendered above the base consonant, but need to be > moved upwards further if a vowel-sign also appears above the base > consonant. The same character is used in memory, but the final > location of the glyph is sensitive to context. ]] > > > > [3] Add another bullet just after the one above something like... > > [[ Complex positioning of character glyphs - In scripts, such as > those used for Indian languages, a combining vowel character that > appears after a base consonant in memory may be displayed to the left > of the base consonant, or on two sides of the base consonant, ie. the > left-most glyph in rendered text may not be the first character in a > text element. Indeed, such vowel characters may be rendered to the > left of, or on more than one side of, a <em>cluster</em> of > consonants that ends with the character they follow in memory. On > the other hand, a Hindi RA character at the beginning of a consonant > cluster in memory may be displayed over a following vowel sign to the > right of the following syllabic cluster. The location in which > glyphs are displayed, from left to right, in these scripts can differ > significantly from the order of the characters in memory. ]] > > > If you add some additional wording along the lines of the above, and > given the changes already made, I believe you will satisfy our > comment. > > Thank you. > > RI > >
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