From: Ernest Cline (ernestcline@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 09:59:04 CDT
> [Original Message]
> From: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
>
> Ernest Cline wrote:
> > Dominoes:
> >
> > I'm not certain that a full 724 set of Dominoes is needed.
> > In plain text, the orientation of a domino would seem to
> > be a matter for the font to specify. The orientation
> > becomes a concern only when the dominoes are laid
> > out as played, and that cannot be represented in plain text.
> > If instead of providing all four orientations, no preferred
> > orientation or only a single orientation were specified,
> > then instead of 724 characters only 191 characters
> > would be required to represent the same variety of
> > dominoes as the proposal calls for.
>
> The examples in the proposal show that there can be a
> semantic distinction between the two horizontal orientations
> of the same bone. This suggests that if the orientations are
> encoding separately they should have the Bidi Mirroring
> property. Your suggestion of encoding the pips instead of
> the bones would eliminate that problem, of course.
I fail to see an example in the proposal (other than a layout
of the dominoes as played, which I do not consider to be
a plain text use) where there is a semantic distinction between
orientations. There are examples in Figures 4 and 5 where
an orientation has been chosen for stylistic reasons. However,
those stylistic reasons can be accommodated without having
to encode all four orientations of each bone, by picking a
standard orientation for the unstyled bone.
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