Context: Modern font technology provides a means to address the practical issue of needing to depict a unified Han character in terms of a collection of alternative glyph representations, in the form of Unicode variation sequences. For example, the Advanced Typographic tables of OpenType permit one of a number of alternative glyph representations to be selected when performing the character to glyph mapping process. In this case, information can be provided within plain text to designate which alternate character form to select.

Question: what tables of OpenType allow permit the selection of alternative glyph representations?
Answer: Advanced Typographic

Question: Where is information provided to designate which character form to select? 
Answer: plain text

Question: How does modern font technology address the issue of depicting a Han character in alternate glyph representations? 
Answer: Unicode variation sequences

Question: What has worsened the practical aspects of unification?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What prevents OpenType from having alternative glyphs?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What designates which alternate character to select?
Answer: Unanswerable