From fisseha@cig.mot.com Mon Mar 13 18:59:13 1995 Received: from moose.cs.indiana.edu by whale.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA05289; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:59:12 -0500 Received: from motgate.mot.com by moose.cs.indiana.edu (5.65c/9.4jsm) id AA13199; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:59:09 -0500 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.6.10/8.6.10/MOT-3.5) with ESMTP id RAA26140 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:59:08 -0600 Received: from po_box.cig.mot.com (po_box.cig.mot.com [136.182.15.5]) by pobox.mot.com (8.6.10/8.6.10/MOT-3.5) with ESMTP id RAA03101 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:59:07 -0600 Received: from gerbil.cig.mot.com (gerbil.cig.mot.com [136.182.7.220]) by po_box.cig.mot.com (8.6.11/SCERG-RELAY-1.11) with ESMTP id SAA20587 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 18:59:33 -0500 Received: (fisseha@localhost) by gerbil.cig.mot.com (8.6.9/SCERG-1.12B) id RAA26782 for dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:59:06 -0600 From: Yonas Fisseha Message-Id: <199503132359.RAA26782@gerbil.cig.mot.com> Subject: Re: on "promise" To: dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu (Daniel Yaqob) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 17:59:06 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <199503112218.QAA06400@gerbil.cig.mot.com> from "Daniel Yaqob" at Mar 11, 95 05:18:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1870 Status: RO ok, heres my input (finaly). i thought i could come up with more stuff, but this is it for now. the question you have in the beginning should, imho, be removed. so start with the title and insert the following. its pretty much the same stuff you wrote. -cut here- The Ethiopic script is used to write a vast majority of languages spoken in Ethiopia. It is derived from (and an extension of) the Ge'ez script which originated as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Church. The Ethiopic script has been expanded to accomodate the large number of languages and dialects within Ethiopia. In our efforts to develop a robust and coherent standard for the Ethiopic script, we have established a set of governing principles that any standard for the comprehensive Ethiopian character set must meet. These requirements are: 1. The members of the set to define the Ethiopic domain must include those characters in both common and infrequent use by publishers of the present day. 2. Every member of the domain requires a unique address. 3. Characters of a common class be addressed contiguously. 4. The standard must include a mechanism to facilitate future expansion of the the domain. Adherence to these principles ensures that the standard is unambiguous, consistent, and complete. -cut here- what is the title "Table of Proposal"? is that a real title or just a place holder to insert a table? I think the heading for this section should be something to the effect of "Proposed Standard for the Ethiopic Script". i gots to get outta here. so ttfn. more later. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonas Fisseha, Software Engineer (708)632-6340 Pager: 0113 Motorola, Wireless System Platforms fisseha@cig.mot.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------