Request for comment on a technical SignWriting document

[Bill Reese]

Steve,
Couldn't a line return work instead of a space every 72 characters?

Bill


On 12/24/2010 8:12 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Submitting to the IETF requires that code snippets be licensed under 
> the BSD. The BSD license allows for free use of the code. You can use 
> the specifications and code in any software product. I know that 
> Windows, Linux, and Mac all use some BSD licensed code.
>
> ABNF is Augmented Backus–Naur Form. ABNF defines a grammar that can be 
> used to create a parser. Section 4.2 of the document supplies the ABNF 
> for SignWriting Interchange. This ABNF grammar can be used to create a 
> parser that will read and validate data.
>
> In my data model, the graphemes do not change size with regards to the 
> coordinate space. I do not mix symbols of different size resolutions. 
> Reducing or enlarging is done to the entire sign text segment.
>
> Custom coloring of specific graphemes is not supported in the data 
> model. Colors is possible based on rules of category, group, base, 
> rotation, or fill.
>
> Size and color should be handled with some type of markup or style 
> sheet rather than with character data. I thought about adding size and 
> color (and other ideas) to the data model, but preferred the 
> simplicity of straight sign text.
>
> The dashes in the symbol ID are historical and verbose. I thought 
> about shortening the symbol ID but didn't for consistency with our 
> other documentation.
>
> Chunking BSW into lines of 72 characters prevents over long lines from 
> causing problems with display when viewing the data. All spacing 
> within BSW is irrelevant from a data perspective.
>
> Thanks for the comments,
> -Steve
>
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