Re: POSITIVELY MUST READ! Bytext is here!

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2002 - 00:46:17 EST

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:33:15PM -0800, Bernard Miller wrote:
> Unicode now has a serious competitor. Please read
> about it at www.bytext.org. Everyone on this list
> should find it extremely interesting.

Let's see. Bytext has no corporate supporters, nor is it supported by
any standards organizations. It has a hard-to-read standard that
requires intimate knowledge of Unicode to understand (I think), and that
shows no typographical sophistication. At several points (keyboard
design, markup language), the author seems to want to change the world
instead of being compatible with what's there.

For all their problems, I find Rosetta and Tron to be more serious
competitors and more interesting than Bytext.

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