From f402c2cf825fb03cf4c932faa5c0927971384e61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Blomster Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:30:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] very very minor changes Originally committed to SVN as r1414. --- specs/as5/as5.tex | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/specs/as5/as5.tex b/specs/as5/as5.tex index 2ca6c6000..40bc715ea 100644 --- a/specs/as5/as5.tex +++ b/specs/as5/as5.tex @@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ Aegisub\cite{Aegisub} and asa\cite{asa} teams in order to replace the old The goal is to create a flexible, easy to understand and powerful subtitle format that can be used in hardsubs or multiplexed into Matroska Video\cite{mkv} files as -softsubs. +softsubs. The syntax is heavily influenced by the older SSA and ASS formats, which in +turn vaguely resemble the TeX typesetting language; but AS5 also has many differences +compared to these older formats and you should not expect it to behave exactly like them. AS5 has no official meaning. The ``A'' can stand for Aegisub, asa, ASS or Advanced, the ``S'' for Subtitles, and the 5 is a reference to the fact that it's a major @@ -85,7 +87,7 @@ All AS5 files are \emph{REQUIRED} to comply with the three requirements below: \begin{itemize} \item Be encoded with one of \emph{UTF-8}\cite{UTF-8}, \emph{UTF-16 Big Endian} \cite{UTF-16} or \emph{UTF-16 Little Endian} Unicode Transformation Formats. UTF-8 is -preffered. +preferred. \item Not to have any character below Unicode code point U+20, except for U+09, U+0A, U+0D. That is, it must be a plain-text file. \item All lines must end with Windows line endings, that is, U+0D followed by U+0A.