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TITLE: Summary of Voting - ISO/IEC TR 19758/PDAM2: Extensions to Multilingual Compositions including requirements of South/East-Asian countries)
SOURCE: SC34 Secretariat
PROJECT: TR 19758:2003/PDAM2: Extensions to Multilingual Compositions
PROJECT EDITOR: Dr. Yushi Komachi; Mr. Gen Nagamura
STATUS: Voting summary
ACTION: According to the JTC 1 Directives, the ballot passes; the editors and all national bodies are directed to consider all of the comments
DATE: 2004-03-28
DISTRIBUTION: SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO: N0472 - 2003-12-07 - ISO/IEC TR 19758/PDAM2: Extensions to Multilingual Compositions including requirements of South/East-Asian countries)N0482 - 2003-12-12 - Ballot due 2004-03-12 - ISO/IEC TR 19758/PDAM2: Extensions to Multilingual Compositions including requirements of South/East-Asian countries)
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P-Member APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT AS PRESENTED APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT WITH COMMENTS AS GIVEN ON THE ATTACHED DISAPPROVAL OF THE DRAFT FOR REASONS ON THE ATTACHED Acceptance of these reasons and appropriate changes in the text will change our vote to approval ABSTENTION (For Reasons Below) NO RESPONSE
Canada X     
China X     
Italy X     
Japan  X (technical and editorial)    
Korea, Republic of X     
Netherlands X     
Norway X     
United Kingdom  X (editorial)    
United States      X

Japan's Comments (technical and editorial)

(1) Unordered lists with special bullet should be dealt with in this Amendment.

(2) Consider the cases where actual emphasizing marks or bullets are specified by glyph identifiers.

UK's Comments (editorial)

The following comment concern errors in N472, ISO/IEC TR 19758/PDAM2: Extensions to Multilingual Compositions.

The following entry should be amended from:

4.26 Drop Cap
At the beginning of a paragraph, there employed large character(s) or a part of character with a height larger than that of 2 lines. The drop cap has the properties of number of lines, number of characters, character size, and font.

to:

4.26 Drop Cap
At the beginning of a paragraph, large character(s) with a height larger than that of 2 lines can be employed in such a way that its body is dropped into the subsequent text. This drop cap has the properties of number of lines, number of characters, character size, and font.

In
4.28 Letter space for emphases (Sperrsatz)
Character spaces in a character string to be emphasized are enlarged. Letter space for emphases has the property of space size. both occurrences of "emphases" should be changed to "emphasis",

In change to Page 36, Clause 6 the word "squence" should probably be changed to "sequence"