<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br><br><br>Just a thought. Is the "iso's kind of XML" version of the spec available anywhere?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>STS. See <a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/sts">https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/sts</a></div><div><br></div><div>Internally, they use neither OOXML nor ODF.  They convert Word to STS using eXtyles.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Makoto</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br>Regards,<br>Hin-Tak<br>            </div>            <div style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">                        <div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)">                                <div>                        On Monday 16 September 2024 at 14:14:01 BST, Liam R. E. Quin via mpeg-otspec <<a href="mailto:mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at" target="_blank">mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at</a>> wrote:                    </div>                    <div><br></div>                    <div><br></div>                                                <div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 20:23 -0700, Ken Lunde via mpeg-otspec wrote:<br clear="none">> Murata-san,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Another consideration is the extent to which the toolchain of ISO/CS<br clear="none">> can handle characters outside of basic Latin. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">I would expect it to be able to handle the needs of the Open Font<br clear="none">Format specification just fine.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">They gave a talk on their new system at an XML confernce, i think maybe<br clear="none">Balisage last year.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Obviously it won't handle fonts with more than 65535 glyphs or using<br clear="none">avar2, but neither will Word right now :-)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Having said that, i don’t see a reason to switch when the document is<br clear="none">nearly ready to publish - it sounds like a lot of work for the editor<br clear="none">with unclear benefits and possible delays.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The new ISO system uses XML behind the scenes, and if they made XML<br clear="none">import available, it'd maybe be possible to use XSLT to take the Word<br clear="none">file and produce their XML, given a suitable blob of funding. Or they<br clear="none">may have a suitable Word input system working themselves. But even if<br clear="none">it’s entirely automated it would need a careful proofreading for sure.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For a future version of the document, starting out again as a draft, i<br clear="none">think it would make a lot of sense.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Kind regards,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">liam<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Liam Quin, <a href="https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/" target="_blank">https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/</a><br clear="none">Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/<br clear="none">XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting.<br clear="none">Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations:  <a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org" target="_blank">http://www.fromoldbooks.org</a><div id="m_-4468028281223212197yqtfd59419"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">mpeg-otspec mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at" target="_blank">mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-otspec" target="_blank">https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-otspec</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>            </div>                </div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"> --<div>慶應義塾大学政策・メディア研究科特任教授</div><div>村田　真</div></div></div></div>