Michael Everson wrote:
>
> At 10:39 -0400 2004-07-12, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > >>Their deviation from the definitions of the words as they were presented
> > >>to the scholarly public in 1988 [talks in Princeton, Chicago, and
> > >>Milwaukee], 1990, 1992, and 1996.
> > >
> >> ... which definitions we are to discern from the ether by means of
> >> mental powers?
> >
> >Hunh?
>
> Well, apparently the definitions deviate from things you said in
> public, and may or may not have published in some of those years
> mentioned.

"May or may not"? Do you not have copies of the JAOS 1990 article, the
1992 Milwaukee symposium volume, and the 1996 WWS?

> >I note, incidentally, that you didn't simply Quote what I posted, but
> >silently inserted hyphens where the move from FrameMaker to e-mail
> >resulted in irregular spacing.
>
> I can't imagine why anyone would complain about a minor bit of
> formatting to make some text more legible in e-mail, nor that it
> would be necessary to do so anyway but silently.

Because it shows that you're still willing to change things without
acknowledging that your changing them.

> >Dammit Michael, they're YOUR definitions; you presumably have them on
> >paper in front of you. Type them, between the above paragraphs, and see
> >whether you can spot the differences all by yourself.
>
> No, Peter. In the first place they are not MY definitions; they are
> those of the Unicode Standard. I didn't write them. In the second
> place, YOU are the one who has said that there is something wrong
> with them, and it is up to YOU to inform us what, if you want us to
> do anything about it. I am not going to try to parse the difference
> and determine what it is that YOU think is wrong with the Unicode
> definitions.

Are you or are you not on this mysterious "Unicode committee" that
published the book? So long as individual passages are unsigned, you are
all responsible for every word that goes out under your names.

Somehow John managed to copy two of the three definitions into an email
message. If you can't see the differences, why not?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...