COR3 issue: ST_Hint

MURATA Makoto eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp
Fri Oct 16 23:27:58 CEST 2015


Looks good, but I would like to drop "primarily".

Regards,
Makoto

2015-10-17 3:06 GMT+09:00 John Haug <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>:

> How about:
>
> For example, certain characters are not explicitly stored in the document
> or can otherwise be mapped into more than one of the font slot categories [
> *Example*: Unicode glyph U+2026 ‘HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS’ *end example*]
> described in the parent element. This attribute shall be used to
> determine how ambiguities in this run shall be handled. [Note: This is
> primarily used to handle the formatting on the paragraph mark glyph, and
> other characters that are not stored as text in the WordprocessingML
> document. end note]
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>
> John
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> *From:* eb2mmrt at gmail.com [mailto:eb2mmrt at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *MURATA
> Makoto
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 15, 2015 4:12 PM
> *To:* SC 34 WG4 <e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org>
> *Cc:* suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
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> *Subject:* Re: COR3 issue: ST_Hint
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> 2015-10-16 7:51 GMT+09:00 John Haug <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>:
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> Does U+2026 actually work that way in WML?  If so, we could note it as an
> example.
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> Absolutely yes.  I learned this from Ishii-san.
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> I wasn’t sure what to say about cs, so I left it unsaid, since it’s all
> dependent on the parent element anyway.  Which is noted in the second
> paragraph.  If there are any suggestions…
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> I spoke with Suzuki-san in a recent meeting of the Japanese mirror.
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> We agreed that we do not know what should be said...   😩
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> Regards,
>
> Makoto
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> *From:* eb2mmrt at gmail.com [mailto:eb2mmrt at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *MURATA
> Makoto
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 4, 2015 1:44 AM
> *To:* John Haug <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>
> *Cc:* SC 34 WG4 <e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org>; suzuki toshiya <
> mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
> *Subject:* Re: COR3 issue: ST_Hint
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> Shouldn't we say why "cs" was kept altough it never appears in the
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> table in Part 1, §17.3.2.26, “rFonts (Run Fonts)”?  Just like us, users
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> will be confused.
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> Regards,
>
> Makoto
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> 2015-10-04 17:20 GMT+09:00 MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp>:
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> I think that we should mention U+2026
> <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2026/index.htm> (Ellipsis).
> This is a very important use
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> case for Japanese users of the hint attribute.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
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> Regards,
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> Makoto
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> 2015-10-01 9:32 GMT+09:00 John Haug <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>:
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> I edited the doc as suggested, though rather than saying (only) for
> characters which are not explicitly stored… I made it less specific.  I
> believe someone said there are some printable characters that could map to
> different font slots.  Attached.  How does that work?
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>
> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: suzuki toshiya [mailto:mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 4:33 AM
> To: Arms, Caroline <caar at loc.gov>
> Cc: John Haug <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>; SC 34 WG4 <
> e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org>
> Subject: Re: [sc34wg4] RE: COR3 issue: ST_Hint
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> I have no problem with the proposed improvement of the text.
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> Regards,
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> mpsuzuki
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> * ------------------------------ *
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> *From:* Arms, Caroline [mailto:caar at loc.gov]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2015 3:20 AM
> *To:* John Haug <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>; SC 34 WG4 <
> e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org>; suzuki toshiya <
> mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
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> *Subject:* RE: COR3 issue: ST_Hint
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> John,
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> From a grammatical viewpoint, I certainly don’t like “multiple of the”.
> What about “more than one of the”?
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> I found the paragraph beginning ”There are” rather hard to grasp.  I
> really needed to read the Note to understand it.  The dogmatic “There are”
> seemed odd.   And “arbitrate that conflict” and “determine how
> ambiguities in this run shall be handled” seem to be saying the same thing.
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> Would there be any problem with:
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> For characters which are not explicitly stored in the document, and which
> can be mapped into more than one of the font slot categories described in
> the parent element, this attribute shall be used to determine how
> ambiguities in this run shall be handled.
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>     Just a thought.
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>     Caroline
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> Caroline Arms
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> Library of Congress Contractor
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> Co-compiler of Sustainability of Digital Formats resource
> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/
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>
> ** Views expressed are personal and not necessarily those of the
> institution **
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> *From:* John Haug [mailto:johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com
> <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2015 4:44 AM
> *To:* SC 34 WG4; suzuki toshiya
> *Subject:* RE: COR3 issue: ST_Hint
>
>
>
> Keeping this in the existing e-mail thread.  I've attached the final text
> we arrived at during the face-to-face meeting in Beijing.  In short, I
> modified the descriptive text to make it less proscriptive and more
> indicative that the values of the attributes are an indicator that only has
> meaning when taken within the context of the parent element containing the
> attribute using this simple type.
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>
> John
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> *From:* John Haug [mailto:johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com
> <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>]
> *Sent:* Friday, September 18, 2015 3:28 PM
> *To:* SC 34 WG4 <e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org>; suzuki toshiya <
> mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
> *Subject:* RE: COR3 issue: ST_Hint
>
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>
> Suzuki-san offered these comments on DR 09-0040 along with others in
> another e-mail:
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> DR 09-0040
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> The "hint" attribute can take "cs" (complex script) for font slot
> selection?
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> The reason why "cs" was to be removed is following; By default, the font
> slot (from ansi/hansi/ea/cs) is selected by the codepoint of the character
> to be rendered.
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> Also it is forcibly changed by w:cs or w:rtl elements.
>
> The default slot selection by the codepoint is sometimes not unique but
> configurable (e.g. the ellipsis is rendered by for ascii slot by default,
> but it could be changed to ea slot, by setting hint to ea). For such
> configurable cases, the codepoint-to-slot table have special descriptions
> like "use X slot, but if hint is set to Y, Y slot is used".
>
> We should be careful that the hint does not change everything, but changes
> configurable parts.
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> At present, the codepoint-to-slot table has no character that cs slot is
> used by default, or, cs slot could be used by setting hint appropriately.
> If the table is correct, I'm suspicious if setting hint to cs has any
> effect.
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> I think this was background why cs would be removed from the possible
> values of hint.
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> There would be a few rationales to permit "cs" value in hint;
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> a) the table was incorrect; some codepoints could be configured to use cs
> font slot, by setting hint to cs.
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> b) setting hint to cs makes everything rendered by cs font slot, as w:cs
> and w:rtl.
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> c) setting hint to cs does nothing, but the values should be permitted
> because existing implementation could write it (dealing them as "invalid"
> is problematic).
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> I think any of above 3 rationales would be reasonable to permit "cs" in
> hint, however, "what would occur by setting hint to cs" should be clarified.
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> I can confirm after talking with a developer here that Word will write
> hint=”cs” and that it appears only to be used when Word writes list
> formatting in HTML output.  So, hopefully we can agree to keep the
> attribute value and we are all correct that it has no effect on the giant
> table added to 17.3.2.26 rFonts by this DR.  Assuming there are no other
> concerns, we should take a little time to tweak the text on the cs
> description (and possibly reflect the same in eastAsia) to sound less
> directive since the actions implementers are to take are defined well in
> the table added to 17.3.2.26.
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> Thanks for the analysis, Suzuki-san!
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>
>
> John
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> *From:* John Haug [mailto:johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com
> <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 9, 2015 4:06 PM
> *To:* 'SC 34 WG4' <e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org>
> *Subject:* RE: COR3 issue: ST_Hint
>
>
>
> We discussed this on the last teleconference.  Nobody remembered the
> details behind this and some old e-mail dug up by Murata-san and Caroline
> didn’t show a specific decision or reason.  Chris and I looked through a
> trove of public files we have access to and “cs” does appear in some.  I
> think the right resolution here is to keep “cs”.
>
>
>
> John
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> *From:* John Haug [mailto:johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com
> <johnhaug at exchange.microsoft.com>]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 14, 2015 2:52 PM
> *To:* 'SC 34 WG4' <e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org>
> *Subject:* COR3 issue: ST_Hint
>
>
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> Background: E-mail “Leftover from DR 09-0040” (latest reply 2015-08-03)
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> Summary:
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> ST_Hint (DR 09-0040)
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> ·         DR removed “cs” value
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> ·         --> Murata-san to remove "cs" from schemas
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> ·         ** Only the value “default” remains; where did “eastAsia” get
> removed?  DR 09-0040 adds lots of text referring to “cs” and “eastAsia”
> values of the hint attribute for some CTs, which is of type ST_Hint.  DR
> 09-0040 is therefore internally inconsistent and should not be applied as
> is.  I haven’t yet rediscovered why ST_Hint had items removed.
>
> Rex> I just checked MM’s mail, “Leftover from DR 09-0040” of 2015-08-02,
> and his proposed schema fix only removes cs; eastAsia is still there.
>
>
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> However, on close inspection, the way the Enumeration Value table is
> written in the COR (see entry #81) is that this is the complete table. As
> eastAsian was never intended to be removed, I should have shown an empty
> row after the default row, containing …, indicating that the remainder of
> the table stays as is. And even though the COR didn’t contain that …, when
> I applied the COR to 2012, I did NOT remove eastAsian, ‘cos there was no
> delete (strike-through in red) instruction in the COR to do so.
>
>
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> Regarding, “DR 09-0040 adds lots of text referring to “cs” and “eastAsia”
> values of the hint attribute for some CTs, which is of type ST_Hint.  DR
> 09-0040 is therefore internally inconsistent and should not be applied as
> is”, I see there is a cs element APART from the cs enumeration value in
> ST_Hint. (I also see that eastAsia is also an attribute name as well as an
> enum value.)
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> I think this needs to be looked at to determine whether the cs attribute
> value should be removed and to confirm whether eastAsia was to be removed
> (and if so whether it ought to).  Because there is such a significant
> amount of text changed here, I think publishing as is would be a problem
> and that we should correct this before the Beijing meeting so the new DCOR
> ballot (COR3b?) will have it.
>
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> --
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> Praying for the victims of the Japan Tohoku earthquake
>
> Makoto
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> Praying for the victims of the Japan Tohoku earthquake
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> Makoto
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Makoto
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