The Problem with Unicode

Citations

Unicode and Others

Tad Piesakowski, Digital records "obscure the past", BBC, 2002 December 15 (digital technology has major shortcomings as a replacement for more traditional methods of archiving)

Markup Codes

The Evolution of Web Documents

Adam Tworkowski, Introduction to markup languages (origins, history)

History

R Campbell, Galley Proof Press

Typography

Elizabeth K Studio, Type Technology - The Four Revolutions

Typography

The Alembic Press

Fontmenu.com (Arobasques)

Victor Gaultney, home, Gentium, projects, research, font hints,

Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography, Oxford University Press, 1972 (p.30: It was possible to make a fount of cursive greek with fewer punches than there were sorts; vowel punches and accent punches were cut separately and then tied together in different combinations for striking the matrices ... Alternatively vowels could be cast without accents as kerned letters, with bodies only half as wide as usual, part of the face being cast on the overhang, or kern. Accents were then cast separately on narrow bodies which were then combined with the kerned vowels to make accented sorts. Both methods were in use by the early sixteenth century, ...)

Hanguel: kana GeoStroke

Arabic calligraphy: links classes

The approach I suggest would in effect provide a default font with default representation for compound characters, and a default representation within any font for any compound not specifically handled, whether this is unanticipated or simply ad hoc. This would also get over the problem mentioned in the following item:

Jeffrey Selingo, The Noah's Ark of the Web, 7,000 Characters at a Time , 2002 November 2002 (it's one of the most frustrating problems encountered when passing documents back and forth electronically: the little square boxes that mean a font someone else used to create the file cannot be rendered on your computer)