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"A strong case is made for the standardization of a few Tamil fonts both for official publications (including school and college books) of the Governments and public display boards (including hoardings, road signs, name boards of... more
"A strong case is made for the standardization of a few Tamil fonts both for official publications (including school and college books) of the Governments and public display boards (including
hoardings, road signs, name boards of establishments) in countries, where Tamil is (one of) the official languages of the State. The basic purpose is to guarantee a great recognition
performance for both optical character recognizers and camera based document analysis and recognition systems. In this internet and mobile era, this committed action is bound to tremendously increase access to information for all through the search media, as well as boost the accessibility to all kinds of print information to people with visual disability. With the use of the ubiquitous smart phones, this also can give immediate access to translation of any Tamil material (printed or camera captured) to all the valuable tourist and business visitors. If we are the first in the world to do this, then we can catapult Tamil language to the digital forefront."
hoardings, road signs, name boards of establishments) in countries, where Tamil is (one of) the official languages of the State. The basic purpose is to guarantee a great recognition
performance for both optical character recognizers and camera based document analysis and recognition systems. In this internet and mobile era, this committed action is bound to tremendously increase access to information for all through the search media, as well as boost the accessibility to all kinds of print information to people with visual disability. With the use of the ubiquitous smart phones, this also can give immediate access to translation of any Tamil material (printed or camera captured) to all the valuable tourist and business visitors. If we are the first in the world to do this, then we can catapult Tamil language to the digital forefront."
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"While editing correspondence or other textual documents of composers and musicians, one happens to come across musical symbols within the texts such as notes, accidentals or time signatures. The already existent Unicode code block... more
"While editing correspondence or other textual documents of composers and musicians, one happens to come across musical symbols within the texts such as notes, accidentals or time signatures. The already existent Unicode code block 1D100β1D1FF sadly (but understandably) doesn't cover all symbols that appear in those texts. MEI certainly is an option to fill this gap within an XML environment but fails to do so in standard word processing. Additionally, while the descriptive encoding of the findings is facilitated, there is yet no standard way of rendering this sort of encodings.
On the other hand, there is a wide variety of music fonts that offer all sorts of symbols. Here the downside is of course that every font uses idiosyncratic character tables without any prose description of the pictured symbols which makes it inadequate for scholarly purposes in terms of interchange and archival storage.
Inspired by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative [1], I propose to try to adopt that model for musical symbols as well. What it needs is a) a scholarly consensus about musical symbols/characters and b) a font that incorporates all these symbols. The symbols that are agreed on by a scholarly workgroup will receive a character code from the Unicode Private Use Area first and will subsequently be submitted to the Unicode Consortium for approval. It is also essential that there exists a reference font that gets updated along with the recommendation of a new symbol.
That way, any Unicode based text processing system can easily make use of these recommendations which will not only provide a solid ground but facilitate the display of the respective symbols as well.
The main objective of this paper is to discuss the underlying idea publicly with other scholars and evaluate the possible support for such an initiative.
[1] http://www.mufi.info"
On the other hand, there is a wide variety of music fonts that offer all sorts of symbols. Here the downside is of course that every font uses idiosyncratic character tables without any prose description of the pictured symbols which makes it inadequate for scholarly purposes in terms of interchange and archival storage.
Inspired by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative [1], I propose to try to adopt that model for musical symbols as well. What it needs is a) a scholarly consensus about musical symbols/characters and b) a font that incorporates all these symbols. The symbols that are agreed on by a scholarly workgroup will receive a character code from the Unicode Private Use Area first and will subsequently be submitted to the Unicode Consortium for approval. It is also essential that there exists a reference font that gets updated along with the recommendation of a new symbol.
That way, any Unicode based text processing system can easily make use of these recommendations which will not only provide a solid ground but facilitate the display of the respective symbols as well.
The main objective of this paper is to discuss the underlying idea publicly with other scholars and evaluate the possible support for such an initiative.
[1] http://www.mufi.info"