On 02/25/2001 05:16:08 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>I am researching a concept that I am hoping to call a uniengine...
>The other commands are intended to include a comprehensive set of commands
>for certain graphics and other purposes, yet to be essentially a small set
>of easily implemented instructions in the hope that the uniengine
technique
>will be widely implemented.
Not happy with PostScript and other existing graphics formats?
>I feel that this is a useful development as many documents need to contain
>pictures and the use of a uniengine graphics system to describe them
within
>the unicode document using an open standard will be a useful alternative
to
>having to include a link to a separate graphics file.
Not happy with existing embedding technologies? Your codes would
effectively amount to binary data contained within document. There are
already ways of doing that. I don't see what the advantage is.
Hope you have fun with it, though. It sounds like an entertaining exercise
if nothing else.
- Peter
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Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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