[MPEG-OTSPEC] Many to many substitution and localization

[William_J_G Overington]

John Hudson wrote as follows.
  
> So maybe learn more about it before suggesting things to be added to 
> the OTL feature set or other aspects of the format?
  
Well, that is one way of looking at it. Another way is that I have the 
opportunity to put forward my idea in a mailing list where experts in 
OpenType may possibly read about my idea and decide that it has merit 
and become enthusiastic about implementing it and apply their knowledge 
of OpenType to make the idea work and go forward with the idea and the 
idea become implemented and applied.
  
> Again, sorry if that sounds harsh, but you seem to have habit of 
> picking up on bits of technology, not taking time to understand them, 
> and then proposing things to do with them.
  
There is some truth in that, and it may work and lead to progress.
  
Back in the 1970s I knew very little about teletext technology but I put 
forward the idea of broadcasting software on teletext pages and having a 
microprocessor in a television set and that producing local 
interactivity. I coined a new word, telesoftware, for my invention. I 
wrote a Letter to the Editor of a trade newspaper, it was published. One 
thing led to another, and another and so on. As a result I was invited 
to be a joint author of a paper for the 1978 International Broadcasting 
Convention where I was able to use a working demonstration of my 
invention, that had been made by Mullard Linited, running software 
broadcast on ITV Oracle teletext. The word telesoftware is now in The 
Oxford English Dictionary, where my name appears in print in the section 
on the etymology of the word telesoftware where that 1976 Letter to the 
Editor is referenced.
  
William Overington
  
Friday 27 September 2024
  
 
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