<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="ltr" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px;">Mark E. Shoulson wrote:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">> I assumed, since you were responding to that, that you were drawing some sort of parallel, that it should be possible to have a layer on top of plain text, i.e. a markup layer, wherein certain printable characters could represent other meanings.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your assumption was correct.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">> It sounds like your request didn't actually relate to what Doug Ewell was saying, since you then reject markup solutions.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Well, I suppose that there may well quite justifiably seem to be a logical inconsistency in me not being enthusiastic about some particular markup solutions and then suggesting what is another markup solution. In my mind there is a big difference in that my suggestion does not involve overloading the original meaning of the character with another distinctly different meaning. So in my mind my request for encoding the teletext control characters as displayable characters in plane 14 with the specific and documented intention that they may, but need not, be used in a markup manner did, and still does, seem to build upon what Doug wrote. Yet maybe I am pushing the envelope too far, though maybe not. I opine that, notwithstanding any possible logical inconsistency with longstanding custom and practice, encoding the teletext control characters as displayable characters in plane 14 as I suggest is the best long term solution. However, I am open to other suggestions if anyone can think of a better way to proceed.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">> I drew the wrong conclusion; ...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">No, you were correct.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">> ... I guess you meant to post your request/suggestion in a new thread and not as a reply.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I was building on what Doug wrote.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">William Overington<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Saturday 10 October 2020</span><br><p style="margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 2em; border-left:2px solid #00ADE5; white-space: pre-wrap "><br></p></div></body></html>