From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:21:57 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37ee9c48-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Treating image as character (with unusual width and height) means > indefinite number of potential characters and if a machine (not human) > does not able to differentiate between "text characters" and "image > characters" it renders character sets unusable. Sure, but the idea is that the actual description of the image lies in a different layer (no, I don't have any idea how these will be linked) and only a descriptive placeholder will appear at the relevant coordinates (recall that I'm advocating a two-dimensional representation to replace the current linear simplification). But your point is certainly relevant. And I'm only tossing ideas around, no deep theories involved. ++L