[MPEG-OTSPEC] An Open Proposal: Fixing the Font Format

[Jonathan Kew]

On 24/08/2020 17:24, Adam Twardoch (Lists) wrote:
> Note that SVG-in-OpenType and WOFF were both authored by W3C community 
> groups, so there is precedent.

Just to clarify, WOFF was finalized and published through the Webfonts 
Working Group (https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/), though it's true there 
were some discussions under way before the working group formally got 
started. (I don't recall if that was originally happening within a 
Community Group...)

JK

>
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 12:44, Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org 
> <mailto:simon at simon-cozens.org>> wrote:
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>     On 24/08/2020 06:16, James Clark wrote:
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>     > There's variation on this that I think is also worth
>     considering: start
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>     > off with a W3C Community Group.
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>      > https://www.w3.org/community/about/
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>     This looks perfect. I'm strongly in favour. I've added both the
>     general
>
>     W3C proposal and specifically the CG idea to the text shaping agenda.
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>
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>     We may want to clarify the scope - do we want a CG specifically
>     for text
>
>     shaping issues, one which includes text shaping and font spec
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>     development, or a separate CG for each issue. But we can talk
>     about that
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>     later.
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>
>     Simon
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