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

MURATA eb2mmrt at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 02:02:09 CEST 2024


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> Just a thought. Is the "iso's kind of XML" version of the spec available
> anywhere?
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STS. See https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/sts

Internally, they use neither OOXML nor ODF.  They convert Word to STS using
eXtyles.

Regards,
Makoto


>
> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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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