Full-sentence Description fields

[Michael Everson]

On 2 Oct 2010, at 00:37, Doug Ewell wrote:

> Mark Davis <mark at macchiato dot com> wrote:
> 
>>      Subtag:
>> vowels
>>      Description:
>> Indicates that the content is an abjad, but that all optional vowel
>> marks are included in the text.
> 
>>      Subtag:
>> fonxsamp
>>      Description:
>> Indicates that the content is transcribed according to X-SAMPA
> 
>>      Subtag:
>> respell
>>      Description:
>> Indicates a transcription of content based on a pronunciation
>> respelling, such as "nāshən" for "nation"
> 
> I would very much like to avoid complex, full-sentence Description
> fields like these.  Description fields tend to work best when they are
> brief labels.

They don't bother me all that much, but if you could generate a list of what we do have it might be interesting to see.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/