Coverage table format 2 text

[Bob Hallissy]

 From the original TrueType Open 
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tt/tt_open/msdn/ttoch02.doc> 
specification all the way to ISO/IEC 14496-22:2009(E) 
<http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c052136_ISO_IEC_14496-22_2009%28E%29.zip>, 
the OpenType Coverage table, format 2, contains this descriptive text:

> The Coverage Indexes for the first range begin with zero (0), and the 
> Start Coverage Indexes for each
> succeeding range are determined by adding the length of the preceding 
> range (End GlyphID - Start GlyphID +
> 1) to the array Index.

This whole sentence seems nonsensical (at least to me) given that the 
Start Coverage Index for each range is actually specified in the Range 
Record itself:


      RangeRecord

Type 	Name 	Description
GlyphID 	Start 	First GlyphID in the range
GlyphID 	End 	Last GlyphID in the range
uint16 	StartCoverageIndex 	Coverage Index of first GlyphID in range


So what am I missing? What is the descriptive text in the spec trying to 
say?

Thanks,

Bob


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