<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I support an external VARC table as well. Where we got stuck is in the discussions of:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/issues/103">https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/issues/103</a></div><div><br></div><div>where I was happy to go ahead and prototype a table with TupleVariationStore. But Skef wants both TupleVariationStore and ItemVariationStore paths to be explored, and that was outside of my time budget.</div><div><br></div><div>It's good that we now have it on the agenda who is supposed to work on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">behdad<br><a href="http://behdad.org/" target="_blank">http://behdad.org/</a></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 3:13 PM Liam R. E. Quin <<a href="mailto:liam@fromoldbooks.org">liam@fromoldbooks.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 04:14 -0800, Skef Iterum wrote:<br>
<br>
> Of course, in practice this means that we're asking that variable<br>
> composites be taken out of the upcoming proposal (and that if it<br>
> isn't Adobe will vote not to approve it, and encourage others to do<br>
> the same). However, we want to stress that this does not necessarily<br>
> mean we will not vote in favor later if further research indicates<br>
> that glyf is the better way to go.<br>
<br>
Can we adopt a slightly different approach? We’re looking at coming up<br>
with a proposal for an external table, outside GLYF, as you/Adobe<br>
proposed, but in the meantime, since the ad hoc meeting is on Monday, i<br>
can't really change the proposal we've submitted.<br>
<br>
However, we do see the motivation, and the document is a working draft,<br>
so it can be changed, and that's fine.<br>
<br>
> Accordingly, we also suggest that how to go about that research and<br>
> development, including who needs to be involved, should be one topic<br>
> for the meeting next week. <br>
<br>
That's fine, i see Vlad added it to the agenda.<br>
<br>
And it'd be OK to vote for the existing Google proposal to go ahead but<br>
with variable composites removed, of course. Or, with the proviso that<br>
a proposal for an external table be developed at least far enough for<br>
concrete discussion.<br>
<br>
I don't know that we can a new external-table proposal ready by Monday,<br>
and in any case people won't have seen it. But we can put it in the<br>
Boring Expansions repository and send email about it.<br>
<br>
I'm sorry if we dropped the ball on the external table proposal;<br>
silence in this case was not a sign of disagreement or disapproval or<br>
anything; i should have pushed for discussion about it internally<br>
here).<br>
<br>
Anyway, either way is fine, but i want to avoid the situation where we<br>
end up with no variable composites at all by April, so having at least<br>
one approach, albeit a flawed one, in the working draft, might be<br>
better than none? What do you think? Again, it's a working draft, so we<br>
can take things out if a better approach is chosen, and that's true for<br>
any part of the proposals.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
liam<br>
<br>
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