ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0017

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

Information Technology ---

Document Description and Processing Languages

Status report on legacy project:
Project JTC1.18.27: Description and identification of Glyph Fonts

1. AM2/9541-1

According to the recommendation 7 of the last Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4, Paris, I forwarded the final text of AM2/9541-1 to JTC1 secretariat:

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To    Ms. L. Rajchel 
      JTC1 Secretariat
Cc    Dr. James D. Mason 
From  Yushi Komachi 
      Project editor of
      JTC1.18.27.1 Amendment 2: support for font technology advances
Date  1998-08-15 JST
Subject  Final text of AM2 to ISO/IEC 9541-1


Dear Ms. L. Rajchel

Here I submit the final text of AM2 to ISO/IEC 9541-1, according to 
the Recommendations (JTC 1/WG4 N1972) of the Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4
Paris, 15 May 1998, recommendation 7 of which says that
   7. Amendment 2 to ISO 9541-1
   WG4 accepts N1975 as the disposition of comments, N1976 as the
   editing instructions, and N1986 as the final text for AM2/9541-1,
   Minor Enhancements to the Architecture to Address Font Technology
   Advances, and instructs the editor to transmit it to the JTC1
   Secretariat for publication by the ITTF.

Regards,
Yushi Komachi
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It was confirmed by Dr. J. Mason:

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This is the text produced by Dr. Komachi for final publication.
 (Some of you may get two copies; I'm in transition with mail systems.)

Jim


Dr. James D. Mason
SC34 Chairman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:Matthew Deane [SMTP:mdeane@ANSI.org]
> Sent:Thursday, August 20, 1998 10:02 AM
> To:Keith Brannon
> Cc:Lisa Rajchel; 'Dr. James Mason'
> Subject:Final text of AMD 2 to ISO/IEC 9541-1
>
> Keith,
> Please find attached the final text of ISO/IEC 9541-1/AMD 2 for
> publication.
>
> Jim-
> This document should be circulated to SC 35 for information.
>
> If anyone has questions, please let me know.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Matt
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:Y. Komachi [SMTP:komachi@y-adagio.com] 
> > Sent:Saturday, August 15, 1998 9:35 AM
> > To:lrajchel@ansi.org
> > Cc:masonjd@ornl.gov; komachi@y-adagio.com
> > Subject:Final text of AM2 to ISO/IEC 9541-1
> >
> > From  Yushi Komachi  > >
> > Project editor of
> > JTC1.18.27.1 Amendment 2: support for font technology advances
> > Date  1998-08-15 JST
> > Subject  Final text of AM2 to ISO/IEC 9541-1
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After those correspondences, I have not yet any information from JTC1.

2. AM1/9541-1

I created the final text, according to the Recommendation 8 (JTC 1/WG4 N1972) of the Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 Paris, 15 May 1998:

According to the previously approved Dispostion of Comments (WG8 N1885) and Editng Instructions (WG8 N1886) WG4 instructs the editor to prepare the final text of AM1/9541-1, Typeface Design Grouping, and transmit it to the JTC1 Secretariat for publication by the ITTF. To support this publication, WG4 requests Prof. Archie Provan to provide examples of typefaces to the project editor.

However, the final text has not yet included the examples of typefaces.

3. Font Services

In the last Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4, Paris, we agreed the recommendation 9. "Font Services Surviving Text":

WG4 has accepted N1953 as the revised text of Font Services (prepared according to Recommendation 1 of the Barcelona meeting). As this project had reached CD level, WG4 requests that its Convenor investigate with JTC1 whether publication as a TR might be pursued.

It should be discussed in the SC34 meeting in Chicago.

4. New Amendment to 9541-1

The Japanese font experts (in CICC: Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization and SC34/Japan) recognized that the existing ISO/IEC 9541 and its amendments cannot enough satisfy the user requirements, in particular, for the application of East Asian multilingual document interchange, where several languages are included within a document, page or a paragraph.

They hold a conference, MLIT (International Symposium on Standardization of Multilingual Information Technology) in Hanoi, Vietnam, and discussed this topic. Most Asian countries, e.g., China, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Srilanka, Thailand, etc. dispatched their experts of document processing to the conference and confirmed the user requirements for multilingual document interchange and requirements for an extension to the ISO/IEC 9541.