Re: triple diacritic (sch with ligature tie in a German dialect writing document)

From: Petr Tomasek (tomasek@etf.cuni.cz)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2006 - 01:48:57 CDT

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On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:44:21AM -0700, Rick McGowan wrote:
> P.T. asked,
>
> > Why couldn't be (theoreticaly) music notation handled in unicode?
>
> Because it's not plain text. Music notation requires a lot of information
> about positions, sizes, etc, that are way beyond plain text.

What do you mean by "plain"?
There are many scripts (like biblical hebrew with vowels and accents),
that have many typographic pecularities..

It's just a matter where you put the line between "plain" and "rich"
text...

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>

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