From: Hart, Edwin F. To: 'Holman, G. Ken (Microstar)' Cc: 'Umamaheswaran, Dr. V. S. (Uma)'; Griffee, Alan (AFII); 'Winkler, Arnold (Unisys)' Subject: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N2746: Character/Glyph Operational Model Date: Monday, December 02, 1996 09:51 Dear Mr. Holman, Thank you for taking the time to review the working draft of the ISO/IEC Technical Report on characters and glyphs. You sent the enclosed message to Dr. Uma on Oct. 29. and he forwarded it to me. Last night I reviewed your comments and I have a problem. You said that there were "a number of incorrect glyphs in the examples in Annex B". While a few of the example glyphs lost details and suffered distortion when we reduced them to match the text, the glyphs appear to me to be correct. If you will identify specific glyphs, I will be better able to resolve your concerns. Concerning the German quotation marks in section 6, I believe that they are correct as printed in the document. I checked with my friend from Austria. He said that the left quote is positioned at the baseline and the right quote is positioned the same as an right quote in English. He said that he never examined the "direction" (concave/convex) of the quotation marks. I used the characters from the Microsoft Windows 3.1 code page (in the 0x80 to 0x9F region). I believe that the "direction" of the right quote in German must mirror the "direction" of the left quote. Since I will be on travel the rest of the week (and without e-mail), and since Al Griffee and I will have an editor's meeting on Saturday and Sunday (Dec. 7-8), please forward any comments to both of us so that we may act on them. Best regards, Ed Hart Edwin.Hart@jhuapl.edu Al Griffee afii@ix.netcom.com ========================================================================= From: Ken Holman To: "'Uma'" Subject: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N2746 Due 1996-10-29 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:26:17 -0400 Hi Uma, I hope all is well. I just read the Character/Glyph model and I'm pleased that it turned out so well. I've been trying to describe this to others in the past, and this document appears to succinctly say it all. My only comment is that there are a number of incorrect glyphs: on the page in the examples in Annex B and I think that the German quotes at the end of page 6 are reversed, showing end quote followed by start quote, where the other two examples are start quote followed by end quote. -- G. Ken Holman Tel: +1 613 596-CADE(2233) /\ /\ Chief Technology Officer Fax: +1 613 596-5934 \/ \/ Computer Microstar Software Ltd. WATS: 1 800 267-9975 /\ /\ Aided 3775 Richmond Road Mail: gkholman@microstar.com \/ \/ Document Nepean Ontario Info: cade@microstar.com /\ /\ Engineering CANADA K2H-5B7 Web: http://www.microstar.com \/ \/