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L2/09-009

Date: January 12, 2009
From: Mark Davis
Subject: Subheads

While doing work on a character picker (http://macchiato.com/picker/MyApplication.html), I found that it was quite useful to pick up the Subheads from NamesList.txt. While not intended for that purpose, they provide pretty useful information on characters.

Here are two lists, sorted by block and by subhead (called here "subblock").

http://macchiato.com/utc/subblocks/blocks_subblocks.html
- notes: 'duplicate' if the subblock has the same name as the block,
- 'singleton' if the subhead is the one one in the block.
http://macchiato.com/utc/subblocks/subblocks_blocks.html
- notes: 'has-longer' if the addition of "Additional", "Other", "Miscellaneous" or final 's' is the same as another subblock.

I found, however, that I needed to regularize the names somewhat, for consistent plurals, and use of "Additional", "Other", and "Miscellaneous". Editorially it may be worth reviewing the list to see if we want to do that to the source (NamesList.txt).

Mark