<!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="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:</span><div><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p>> <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve; display: inline !important;">But the purpose? For interchange information (and to type), we will use a different format, so better to use such format which users can understand (HTML, Markdown, TeX, or a new "UniFormat"). To display? is someone willing to program it? Many standards have: "usage first, standardisation later".</span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve; display: inline !important;">Well, I put forward a proposal to use Variation Selector 14 to specify a request for an italics glyph. I had made a test font and it worked well. The proposal was not stateful and could, in my opinion, be a useful facility. Yet the proposal got rejected.</span></p><p><br></p><p>Maybe if UniFormat becomes designed and implemented, that suggestion might be considered for inclusion..</p><p><br></p><p>A PDF document could be a convenient way to gather a VS14 character to paste into a document to get UniFormat going as a VS14 character is not, as far as I am aware, a key on an existing keyboard.</p><p><br></p><p>If UniFormat were to become implemented then a USB UniFormat external keyboard could be manufactured.</p><p><br></p><p>If UniFormat became into use by many end users then such keyboards might well be available at supermarkets and deliverable as part of the grocery, as USB external keyboards are now.</p><p><br></p><p>The big problem is getting started with UniFormat. There is a good chance that even discussion of it will be dismissed as not necessary today!</p><p><br></p><p>William</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div></div></body></html>