The International Macintosh Users Group presents:

SING: Adobe's New Gaiji Architecture

Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: September 16, 2004, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Jim DeLaHunt (Adobe Systems, Inc.)
Topic: SING: Adobe's New Gaiji Architecture
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South to
Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
Infinite Loop.
Admission: $4, free for IMUG members
Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com

High-quality Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) typography requires
an open-ended class of Chinese-derived characters. Different CJK
fonts provide a core selection of these characters as part of their
standard character set. However, publishers need supplemental glyphs
or characters that are known as "gaiji." This presentation describes
a new Adobe initiative to address the gaiji requirement: the SING
architecture. SING answers the need for a flexible gaiji workflow on
the desktop. SING enables you to extend your CJK fonts with
individual new OpenType-based "glyphlets," representing variant glyph
shapes or symbols. These glyphlets are embedded in documents and
move through the workflow. Adobe intends to include SING in future
Adobe products.

Building on work presented at the 22nd IUC in September 2002, this
presentation reviews why gaiji are important; it describes the SING
architecture; and it looks at some implications for the Unicode
character-glyph model. We will demonstrate SING Technology Preview
software. The presentation assumes basic knowledge of the Japanese,
Chinese, or Korean writing systems, and of text formatting and the
Unicode character-glyph model. Anyone entering, processing, or
displaying text that contains person or place names in CJK languages,
be it for publishing, for corporate databases, or for the web and
cell phones, will encounter the gaiji requirement, and would benefit
from being aware of the SING approach.

This talk is a follow-up to my talk to IMUG on 1/16/03, "Gaiji:
Characters, Glyphs, Both, or Neither?"

http://www.imug.org/pastevents03.html

Jim DeLaHunt is an engineering manager at Adobe Systems, responsible
for software related to Japanese font handling and to gaiji. He was
engineering manager for the SING Gaiji Technology Preview. He was
introduced the gaiji requirement when he first joined Adobe fifteen
years ago, and still isn't satisfied with any gaiji mechanism he has
found in the market.

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