Meeting minutes
Introduction, logistics, updates as needed
janina: We are considering a face to face meeting, London seems a good choice in reasonable reach of most task force members
… as discussed, a face-to-face is a chance to get a lot of work done
… pre-covid the F2F meetings were more common
Lionel: Sponsorship logistics require (a) pencilling in a date (b) a space
… We have possibilities for spaces in London area
janina: Sponsor usually supplies the food during working hours as well
… we could invite other people who are nearby
… we want to avoid Easter 20 April and Passover
… so we are narrowing in on late April, early May
Annalu: The prices go down as well after Easter.
RESOLUTION: Adapt will tentatively meet either 28-30 April or 4-6 May
Symbols (Issue 240)
Lionel_Wolberger: Russell has demonstrated the creation of a font based on SVG symbols (derived in this case from a bitmap image)
Lionel_Wolberger: Will it be a problem for symbols at the typical 10pt font size?
Russell: Yes, at 10pts
<matatk> This is awesome work, Russell; thank you!
Lionel_Wolberger: Indiscernability at small font sizes not a blocker because symbols font can be rendered at any size
Janina: Text around the AAC can still be a different font size than the AAC font itself
<Zakim> matatk, you wanted to ask about keys
matatk: Fantastic, Russell!
matatk: WHATWG believes combined code points can be rendered with fonts as well--but how?
matatk: How do we annotate with multiple code points? Can a font support that?
Annalu: The number of individual symbols is huge
… if rendering in font, every symbol will require a separate glyph
… the sheer number of items is likely underestimated by most people
<Zakim> comment, you wanted to comment on fonts
Lionel_Wolberger: Related to Annalu's comment, search is not implemented on fonts. It is there for emojis, or Bliss Symbols, but not font glyphs
<Annalu> Sorting is a HUGE issue and I know the Bliss sorting has taken ages to do.
Russell: A demo of the Bliss - via - Unicode approach would really help
<matatk> I started this wiki page, where we can catalogue practical examples. It's missing almost everything - the idea is to have headings for each thing we want to demonstrate. Can we edit this in order to add in the test cases we're gong to need to make? It should be a minimal set (so we're done when it's all filled in) but also sufficient to
<matatk> demonstrate/test our concerns: https://