[MPEG-OTSPEC] Many to many substitution and localization

[William_J_G Overington]

Simon Cozens replied.
 
Thank you for replying.
 
Simon Cozens wrote as follows.
 
> 3) Ensure that the font format is the most appropriate place for the 
> standard. Can/should it be done by a layout engine? A rendering 
> engine?
 
As I understand it, the result is produced by a layout engine and a 
rendering engine that are in an application program such as, for 
example, a desktop publishing program, using information that is 
gathered from a font as input to use together with end user text in 
ISO/IEC 10646 characters to produce the result.
 
> A higher-level protocol? If so, it does not belong in the font 
> format. 
 
Well, codes such as !983 and !313125 are, possibly, in a higher level 
protocol, higher level than ISO/IEC 10646 yet not as high a higher level 
as, say, HTML or XML.
 
Yet I consider that it is fine, indeed appropriate, for information 
about their decoding to be stored within a font. It seems to me to be 
much the same in general principle as the established practice of using 
a font for storing information for the decoding of a sequence of 
characters to produce a display of the Welsh flag.
 
> If you think it should belong in the font format even though it can be 
> done in other part of the text stack, demonstrate evidence.
 
Here is a link to a chapter of my first novel where there is a play that 
has some applications that I hope may be of interest.
 
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_079.pdf 
<http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_079.pdf>
 
The whole novel is available from the following web page. Free to read, 
no registration, just open access PDF documents.
 
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm 
<http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm>
 
> 5) Develop, or commission, a working implementation so that the 
> feature can be demonstrated and evaluated.
 
Alas, I cannot do either of those myself.
 
I can put forward the idea, I can do some other parts, but, alas, 
neither of those two myself.
 
William Overington
 
Monday 30 September 2024
 
 
 
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