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

[Hin-Tak Leung]

 Hi Liam,

Currently, 
word -> (ISO process) -> iso's kind of XML

you are saying it may be possible to go via?

word -> (XSLT) -> iso's kind of XML

I suppose if you are talking about docx (which is xml-based), that's true... ideally we might want to do the reverse:

iso's kind of XML -> (XSLT) -> docx 

and work directly with the iso XML for diffs and updates, and use word docx as a "preview" / read-only format...

Just a thought. Is the "iso's kind of XML" version of the spec available anywhere?

Regards,
Hin-Tak
     On Monday 16 September 2024 at 14:14:01 BST, Liam R. E. Quin via mpeg-otspec <mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at> wrote:  
 
 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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