[MPEG-OTSPEC] "font directory" / "offset table" / "table directory"

[Peter Constable]

E.g.,

The OpenType font starts with the Offset Tabletable directory, which is a directory of the top-level tables in a font.


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> but whenever we're introducing a term that involves a plural …
Sounds reasonable.

Thanks!

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Subject: Re: [MPEG-OTSPEC] "font directory" / "offset table" / "table directory"

“Class” is a great example where this sucks. A “glyph class” may be a group, list or collection of glyphs, or may be some attribute of a glyph. Standard English does not help.

I think that the "code" portions of the spec (field names etc. like usWeighClass) should stay the same, but whenever we're introducing a term that involves a plural, we should describe it at least once using the prepositional construct (directory of tables, array of records etc.)

A.
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