Full-sentence Description fields
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Fri Oct 1 19:59:45 CEST 2010
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/
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