[mpeg-OTspec] Updated draft CFP for review

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Thank you, John.
I will edit the text to incorporate your comments.

Thank you,
Vlad


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> From: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of John Hudson
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:45 PM
> To: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [mpeg-OTspec] Updated draft CFP for review
> 
> The compatibility requirement for the math layout extentions might
> benefit from a caveat. It currently reads
> 
> 	A proposed technology shall primarily address
> 	presentation aspects of mathematical formulas and
> 	shall support / offer an easy way to integrate new
> 	functionality with the existing layout / positioning
> 	mechanisms and table formats, and feature tag
> 	definitions already defined by the OFF standard.
> 
> In fact, math layout is necessarily almost entirely independent of
> existing OFF layout, which isn't sufficient to handle the complexities
> involved. The only OFF-layout integrated part of Microsoft's math
> layout consists of a new <math> script tag, three new math-specific
> features, and optional use of existing right-to-left mirroring features
> for Perso-Arabic math layout. Everything else is new MATH table layout,
> and requires a math handler that is a client of OFF-layout for those
> few features but is mostly doing stuff that OFF-layout can't do.
> 
> I suggest wording such as
> 
> 	A proposed technology shall primarily address
> 	presentation aspects of mathematical formulas and
> 	shall, insofar as rich presentation capabilities
> 	permit, support / offer an easy way to integrate new
> 	functionality with the existing layout / positioning
> 	mechanisms and table formats, and feature tag
> 	definitions already defined by the OFF standard.
> 
> 
> JH
> 
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