[omega] Draft of paper for EuroTeX 2005

[Yannis Haralambous]

At first sight I would say:

if sign is {c,p1=v1,...,pn=vn,g}

then:

1) c is always one or zero characters

2) g is always one or zero glyph

3) p* can be arbitrary so that the complex structures you need will be 
included in the properties.

Le 11 mars 05, à 10h50, Gábor BELLA a écrit :

> On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 15:48 +0100, Antonio Regidor García wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have still to read again and think calmly about the paper but I have
>> a question: the character inside a sign will be allways a Unicode
>> character, or more complex structures will be allowed, like kanji
>> defined recursively from their radicals? (Maybe in this case instead 
>> of
>> <character, properties, glyph> we will need something like
>> <pseudo_character_glyph, properties> or <radical_tree, properties,
>> glyph>).
>
> Hello Antonio,
>
> I don't know if Yannis has already answered your question but yes, the
> Unicode character will always be included in a sign (unless in the rare
> cases when it is a "characterless" sign, i.e., a glyph that does not
> have a corresponding character). This however shouldn't stop us from
> including structures like the radical tree along with it (à la CDL, for
> example: http://www.wenlin.com/cdl/ ). Indeed we have thought about 
> this
> possibility which seems very interesting: having more complex 
> structures
> such as graphs as property values would be useful in cases like this
> one. The exact way such a thing should be implemented remains to be 
> seen
> though. (The actual byte-level format for representing signs is still 
> an
> open question.)
>
> Regards,
> Gábor
>
>
>
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