From 1f597986b4082a1a0b1462d251ded2cad3505d2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dchandler Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:14:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Elaborated for developers. The code in question (TMW->ACIP for the TMW for U+0FAD) is not yet committed, but will be soon. --- htdocs/TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html | 3 ++- htdocs/tibwn_ini_file_format.html | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/htdocs/TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html b/htdocs/TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html index 996aba9..74b255c 100644 --- a/htdocs/TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html +++ b/htdocs/TMW_or_TM_To_X_Converters.html @@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ independent teams (Garrett and Garson, Chandler) turned the Tibetan Machine Web - documentation into TM<->TMW tables.  These tables + documentation into TM<->TMW tables (reified in tibwn.ini).  These tables were compared, giving full confidence that the tables are as accurate as the documentation (which has a few flaws itself, documented in the errata we have diff --git a/htdocs/tibwn_ini_file_format.html b/htdocs/tibwn_ini_file_format.html index 3699d27..c11aa1e 100644 --- a/htdocs/tibwn_ini_file_format.html +++ b/htdocs/tibwn_ini_file_format.html @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ href="http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/jskad.html">Jskad and WylieWord - both make use of a data file named tibwn.ini.  + both make use of a data file named tibwn.ini.  This document concerns the structure and content of that data file.

@@ -264,7 +265,19 @@ __TILDE__^~91,5~~9,89~~~~~~~0F82 corresponds to a Tibetan Machine Web font and ord tells which Tibetan Machine Web glyph this line describes.  No two rows of data may have the same value for - this column. + this column.  (Note that TMW is a superset of TM, so there is + one glyph in TM that could reasonably appear twice, mapped to both + TibetanMachineWeb7.90 and TMW7.91.)  But note that Jskad + etc. must deal with a superset of TMW -- such as when converting + the ACIP {W+W+W+KA} into Unicode -- and thus cannot + internally use the TMW glyph alone to represent arbitrary Tibetan + text.  And the Extended Wylie Transliteration is not a unique + key either; see, e.g., the many glyphs that EWTS + {r}.  For this reason, a smart tool uses the pair + (EWTS, TMW) as an internal representation.  (In Jskad, + this is done in a way that's hard to understand, but it is done -- + see, e.g., the code implementing the TMW->ACIP conversion of + TibetanMachineWeb7.69.)