Suggestions for EVA

[ReneZ]

Hi,

what I had in mind is that such user comments would be meaningful to indivual users only.
They would be in contrast to meaningless comments like <!  bla bla > which is only meant for human understanding, and can usually be deleted without any (real) consequence.

For a tool like ivtt, they should not be quickly removed, but only when this is specifically desired by an option.
They do not appear in any public transliterations and are not yet expected by any existing software.
If they are deemed useful, they can be 'elevated' to a common convention of course.

Your first example is what I had in mind for your case.
In fact, </> and <\> are intuitive and I could easily imagine having them replace the existing <~>, which only appears like 6 times in the ZL file, i.e. make them 'official' part of IVTFF.
In that case, they should not imply a drawing intrusion, and perhaps not even a space. Let me know what was your plan with this.

With the alternative spacing it becomes more tricky, because these are likely to be very frequent.
Beside using <.> and/or <,> and/or <;> an option could be to use <:> for the shortest possible space, i.e. less than the present comma.
Then the combination ,<:> would mean more than a comma but less than a period, and
.<:> would mean more than a period.
This is a bit verbose, but simple and consistent, and an automatic handling by existing tools would be possible.
Also this is something that I could see as becoming an official part of IVTFF.

Furthermore, 'just removing' the <:> would not create too many overly long words.

Edit: not using <:> but just a single : would also be possible - just a bit more tricky to implement in existing tools.
The elegant aspect would be its equivalent in musical notation...