[omega] Re: Seeking for a new name for "sign"

[Xavier Cazin]

I would suggest "facies". It brings "face" of course, but also "shape" 
and "properties" notions. I thought of facet first, but the XML Schema 
use of it limited it more or less to the constraint aspect.

Xavier.

Yannis Haralambous wrote:

> At EuroTeX 2005, Adam and Hilmar suggested that "sign" is not a good 
> name for the concept described in my paper because the term "sign" has 
> been overloaded by the various disciplines. So we are looking for a 
> new term, more original and still clear and appealing enough.
>
> It must be more general than character and glyph:
>
> A *** is an atomic unit of text containing a character, a glyph and an 
> arbitrary number of user-defined properties and their values.
>
> It must be simple enough so that people will eventually stop talking 
> of "character data" and start talking of "*** data"
>
> It must also be easily translatable in all languages
>
> Some ideas I had (not necessarily good):
>
> CG sign (CG= character + glyph) or C&G sign
> unisign
> charglyph  (difficult to translate)
> ...
>
> Could you contribute?
>
> TIA
>
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