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Meeting: Timed Text Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 01 June 2017
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scribe: nigel
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Present: Glenn, Andreas, Mike
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Regrets: Dae, Pierre
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Present+ Thierry
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Chair: Nigel
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Topic: This Meeting
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Nigel: For today, we have TTML stuff - issues, progress, TTML1 vs 2 compatibility, a little
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.. on IMSC that's in the agenda (even in Pierre's absence). Any thing specific to raise or AOB?
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group: [silence]
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Nigel: Okay then let's do it!
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Topic: TTML issue assignment and progress tracking
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Nigel: I just want to recognise the huge amount of work that Glenn has done on TTML2
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.. over the last month.
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Glenn: I won't be able to make the telcos in June but will be able to work offline by
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.. email.
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Nigel: So there's no point in proposing to move the meetings?
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Glenn: No, I still wouldn't be able to attend.
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Glenn: In terms of progress I have only 1 issue remaining for which there is no PR.
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.. The priority will be to wrap up the PRs and get to a version for WR. There may be
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.. some other issues that I will address too, some of them recent, like not deprecating
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.. ttp:profile. I don't know if I will be able to address the 24 or so issues raised by
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.. Richard Ishida, but if there are simple ones I will try to do that.
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.. For issue 195 on audio description I posted a preliminary PR which is not complete.
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.. I see there are comments on that from you Nigel which I will look at, so that's also
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.. on my list for June. I want to get all that work done by 23rd June which will give a
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.. week to prepare a final version of the WR and deal with any publishing issues.
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Nigel: Our goal is to publish WR by end of June. Can we have a completed draft by
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.. 15th June for review to give 2 weeks review to verify that we have consensus?
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.. Any commits after then, unless they are addressing review comments, might not make it in.
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Glenn: Ok I'll see how far I can get by the 15th.
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Glenn: I'd like to talk today about the proposal for dealing with line gap, and the other
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.. is the lingering issues about em square and font size semantics.
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Nigel: Ok, what about mediaOffset?
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Glenn: The last issue I have, #96 on root temporal extent, encompasses that so I'm
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.. not yet ready to review that today - I'm still working on it.
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Nigel: Ok
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Glenn: That's a case where maybe we need a special call with interested parties to
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.. drill down into the details of that one.
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Nigel: Sounds like a good idea.
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.. Status right now on TTML2:
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.. 44 open issues.
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.. 7 issues for group review or awaiting HR comment on disposition
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.. 28 open issues with no milestone
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.. (19 are horizontal review comments)
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.. 9 open on the Editor's WR work list.
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.. Glenn is there anything specific where it would be useful for input from others, e.g.
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.. editorial notes, examples?
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Glenn: Not right now, #150 is the only one on here.
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.. I'd like to talk about today.
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Nigel: Before we dive into the issues, are there any other changes anyone has begun
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.. to work on?
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Topic: TTML1 & TTML2 issues, actions, PRs, editorial actions etc
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-> https://github.com/w3c/ttml2/issues/331 Revert deprecation of ttp:profile on root element. #331
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Glenn: I posted a pull request on this last night that reverts the deprecation.
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Nigel: There are two things to discuss here - the TTML1 vs TTML2 goal and the
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.. behaviour for ttp:profile if ttp:processorProfiles is also present.
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Mike: I want a statement at the beginning of the document that states that all TTML1
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.. document instances shall be valid TTML2 documents. The handling of deprecations
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.. is delegated to the places where those deprecations are defined.
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Glenn: I don't see a problem with stating that as an informative note.
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Mike: That's what I have in mind.
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Glenn: If you say "should validate" that's complex, maybe "should remain conformant"
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.. would be better. Validation may create warnings as well as errors. So a TTML2 based
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.. validation processor may emit warnings when processing a TTML1 document that
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.. uses something that's deprecated.
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Mike: I had it right on the email - the important thing is to state informatively this
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.. goal at the beginning of the document, which should guide us on not obsoleting
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.. anything. I was concerned because I needed to check the meaning of "deprecate".
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.. I think we should use "conformant" language rather than "deprecate".
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Glenn: Another interesting thing is the scenario of processing a TTML1 document
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.. under TTML2 rules rather than TTML1 rules. This could be done by a configuration
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.. parameter.
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Mike: That would be good to mention - we're not changing the namespace are we?
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Glenn: No we're not changing that.
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Mike: It would be helpful to discriminate old from new documents.
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Glenn: For example I could take a TTML1 document and add a v2 attribute to it. It is
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.. no longer strictly a TTML1 document because it has a version attribute. Now I feed
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.. that to a TTML2 processor
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Nigel: So your point is that the processing of a TTML1 document under TTML2
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.. rules might generate different output from the same document processed under
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.. TTML1 rules?
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Glenn: I just wanted to point out there are subtleties.
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Andreas: I have a question about handling of TTML1 documents by a presentation
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.. processor. Is the presented result identical from a TTML2 processor as from a TTML1
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.. processor? Is that also guaranteed?
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Glenn: I doubt if you get that with TTML1 processors.
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Andreas: But I mean the intent.
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Glenn: It's not true in general because you cannot guarantee what fonts are used, and
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.. the line breaking algorithm is not specified.
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Andreas: My question is: is there any difference in TTML2 that would result in a
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.. different rendering from a TTML 1 processor, having taken out the non-deterministic parts.
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Glenn: If the implementations have the same fonts, the same rasterisation processing
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.. and font implementation, and we assume that we are not considering implementatoin
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.. dependent differences. If you throw out all those variables then it probably should
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.. be close but I don't know if it would be exact even in theory. I don't think anything
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.. in TTML1 right now says the output of a presentation engine has to be identical.
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.. We don't have a testing regime to verify that.
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Nigel: I'd flip this round and look for counter-examples. One of those is the handling
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.. of tts:origin and tts:extent on div and p elements. Presentation behaviour is not
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.. defined in TTML1 for that but it is in TTML2 so the two processing engines should
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.. generate different output given a document that uses that syntax.
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Andreas: I think that example is interesting. I think if we add such a statement, we
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.. should add that all TTML1 documents should be processed okay by a TTML2
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.. processor, and that changes in TTML2 do not lead to different results than a TTML1
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.. processor. That is if we can be sure. Otherwise we should just state that document
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.. conformance is given for TTML1 documents as being valid TTML2 documents.
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Glenn: In TTML1 we define 3 standard profiles - full, presentation and transformation.
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.. We tied those to v1 and in v2 that we are defining now we have created new
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.. profiles with the same names but slightly altered. Now instead of dfxp-full etc we
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.. have ttml2-full, ttml2-presentation and ttml2-transformation, so we have two sets
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.. of built-in profiles, one that applies to TTML1 and the other to TTML2. We are also
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.. extending the set of feature designators in TTML2. So a TTML2 processor can
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.. choose only to treat documents as TTML2 or to process TTML1 documents as
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.. faithfully to TTML1 as I can, except if ttp:version="2" which may lead to slightly
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.. different presentation potentially.
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Nigel: In summary, we should not state that a TTML2 processor will generate the same
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.. output as a TTML1 processor for the same conformant TTML1 document, since we
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.. do not know in general that it is the case.
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Glenn: I think we should put this note in the Conformance section.
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Mike: Shall I file an issue?
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Nigel: Yes please do it so we can track it.
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Mike: On this issue, can I refer to it?
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Glenn: We need to make sure that we deal with the "used value" of ttp:version.
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Nigel: Are you happy for #331 to bring back the wording about precedence in case
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.. ttp:profile and ttp:processorProfiles are present?
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Glenn: I thought there was some procedural wording there, I'll verify and if not then
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.. yes I'll put that wording back.
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Mike: I think we should not permit both to be present in the same document instance.
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Glenn: We do not prohibit content inside the TTML document.
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.. You may do that in a profile.
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Mike: Why allow both in the same document?
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Glenn: You should not but we cannot enforce author behaviour so we define what
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.. the processor does. It is clearly not violating a syntactic rule and we do not want to
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.. insist on a schema based rule to enforce it so we have semantic language that says
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.. you should not do both.
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Mike: I think that's weird but I understand that's the common practice so I'll back off.
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Glenn: This is the case for origin and position too, for example.
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Nigel: I agree even if the authoring practice is not good we should have a defined
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.. behaviour rather than an undefined one.
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Mike: Ok!
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Glenn: I agree we need language to say you shouldn't do both and what to do if they
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.. are both present so I'll make sure that's there.
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Mike: Thank you.
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Glenn: I can handle the addition of a conformance note to #331.
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Mike: I'll raise an issue about the obsoleted feature.
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Topic: Line Gap
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-> https://github.com/w3c/ttml2/issues/150 Ways to make span background height be lineHeight #150
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Nigel: Glenn you requested here and on IMSC to make this a parameter attribute
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.. rather than a style attribute.
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Nigel: We did discuss this for IMSC and concluded that it should be a style attribute.
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Andreas: I tried to find this in the minutes from the London minutes, but as far as I
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.. recall we had this discussion and even then Glenn wanted just one attribute for the
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.. whole document; others had the strong view that it should be a style attribute.
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.. I cannot remember exactly the use case. I think we definitely discussed the solution
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.. and agreed to have it as a style attribute.
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Nigel: +1
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Glenn: I agree that's what we discussed.
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.. I'm not convinced at all that a single document instance would use more than one
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.. value at any point. I expect that documents would declare a style attribute as a top
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.. level inherited value or an initial value so they will have the same value everywhere.
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.. If we started out with a parameter version we could add a style version later for
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.. more refinement.
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.. I think we don't have a requirement for it and it makes implementations and testing
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.. more complicated.
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Nigel: Glenn you asked me for an example - I added one to the pull request
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-> https://github.com/w3c/ttml2/pull/346Issue 0150 inline background height #346
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Nigel: This is based on the HbbTV 2.0.1 heuristic that does allow for documents to
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.. vary the line gap filling behaviour, so a single ttp: namespace attribute would not
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.. allow this example to work.
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Andreas: We discussed this and decided the other way around. I think we should take
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.. it for granted that there is a requirement to apply it as a style to a paragraph, so it
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.. is not sufficient to have a document wide setting.
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Nigel: +1
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-> https://github.com/w3c/imsc/issues/238 Change itts:fillLineGap to ittp:fillLineGap. #238
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Glenn: Since it is a style attribute in IMSC 1.0.1 I will close the issue and go back to
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.. a style attribute - I don't particularly like it!
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s|346Issue|346 Issue
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Glenn: Are you happy if I make the change to #346 that I can merge it.
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Nigel: Please could you make the change and then allow us time to double check it?
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Glenn: Ok. By the way the reason I ended up going this way is because earlier on I had
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.. proposed special values in bpd, but the more I tried that the more conflicts I uncovered
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.. so doing something special is warranted. bpd and ipd do not apply to inline areas
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.. that are not inline blocks so coming up with special language was too strange and
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.. complicated to manage.
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Topic: #200 Two value percentage font sizes
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-> https://github.com/w3c/ttml2/issues/200 Two value percentage fontSize not fully defined #200
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Nigel: I'm concerned that we are removing the semantic that allows the author to
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.. define only the font height and have the processor present the glyphs without
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.. any anamorphic scaling, possibly with knowledge of the display aspect ratio.
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Glenn: It is already the case that font size has a defined width and height for the em
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.. square. Logical pixels do not have any aspect ratio and we are talking about logical
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.. pixel space here. When we scale the em square to a logical width and height...
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Nigel: Presents starting condition of no tts:extent on root, use of %age dimensions,
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.. implementation chooses what SAR, DAR etc to calculate.
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Glenn: [walks through this]
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.. e.g. for a 4:3 display the implementation would choose a SAR of e.g. 640x480.
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.. That's up to the implementation to decide. Now we have SAR=DAR and PAR=1.
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.. In this case all logical pixels map to square display pixels so if you specify a fontSize
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.. of say "10%" on the region then you get logical pixels 64 high and 64 wide. Since
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.. here we are mapping those to square display pixels you end up with a square em
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.. square.
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Nigel: Okay I think you might have persuaded me - if you switched to a 16:9 display
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.. you would get more horizontal pixels and they would still be square.
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.. By the way the issue originally arose because, although in the case we just went
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.. through, the SAR is known, in a transformation processor it can not always be
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.. known. There is one trick we could play which is to consider the horizontal width
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.. as an equivalent rh value (i.e. width is a proportion of the height).
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Glenn: That's in the PR.
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Nigel: That's PR #336, which is merged.
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Glenn: There's a note example under fontSize.
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Nigel: Is it clear which pixels we mean, now that we define two kinds in Annex H.
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Glenn: I have a note to myself to explain that we mean logical pixels. I think there may
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.. be one place that you [Nigel] pointed out recently where we say display pixels but
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.. we mean logical pixels.
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.. Presentation Context Coordinate Space - under tts:position there's an image about
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.. percentage based positioning and a couple of paragraphs down it mentions it.
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.. So I need to review that and make sure that is is correct.
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Glenn: I've noted for myself that all layout is done in logical pixels.
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Nigel: I think that's worth clarifying.
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Topic: Meeting close
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Nigel: We're out of time, thank you everyone. For those who are going to be present,
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.. see you next week. Final word: please do review TTML2 now and raise any issues
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.. sooner rather than later - anyone raising a bunch of issues on June 28 is just going
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.. to create upset! [adjourns meeting]
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