[MPEG-OTSPEC] Proposed Adoption of the Online Standards Development Platform

[Liam R. E. Quin]

On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 20:23 -0700, Ken Lunde via mpeg-otspec wrote:
> Murata-san,
> 
> Another consideration is the extent to which the toolchain of ISO/CS
> can handle characters outside of basic Latin. 

I would expect it to be able to handle the needs of the Open Font
Format specification just fine.

They gave a talk on their new system at an XML confernce, i think maybe
Balisage last year.

Obviously it won't handle fonts with more than 65535 glyphs or using
avar2, but neither will Word right now :-)

Having said that, i don’t see a reason to switch when the document is
nearly ready to publish - it sounds like a lot of work for the editor
with unclear benefits and possible delays.

The new ISO system uses XML behind the scenes, and if they made XML
import available, it'd maybe be possible to use XSLT to take the Word
file and produce their XML, given a suitable blob of funding. Or they
may have a suitable Word input system working themselves. But even if
it’s entirely automated it would need a careful proofreading for sure.

For a future version of the document, starting out again as a draft, i
think it would make a lot of sense.

Kind regards,

liam

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