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Re: What is this list? -- 2nd installment

Doug_Ewell@... wrote:

> As for my invented script, one person did respond privately to ask
> about details of the script (so what did you think, Robert?) but so far
> nobody has volunteered their font-making talents. I am still looking
> for a fontsmith to help me out.
>
> I originally wrote:
>
> > The glyphs are very simple, consisting of straight lines only (no
> > curves). About 55-60 glyphs would be needed.
>
> and should add, for those who wonder what I meant by "very simple,"
> that most glyphs require only 2 to 4 strokes each -- the maximum is 6,
> for an accented ligature -- and that exactly 62 glyphs are needed.
>
> I observe that the Qalam home page specifically includes invented
> scripts among the list of on-topic subjects, so I am happy to post more
> details on my "Ewellic" script if anyone is interested. As a starter,
> I have attached a GIF showing the 46 basic characters. The remaining
> 16 glyphs not shown are accented variants and ligatures.

Someone familiar with Fontographer might be able to create your font in
a weekend or so. (It's _not_ a simple task.) However, your characters
are far, far too similar in appearance to each other to constitute a
practical script. (That's the other main objection to the winning entry
for Shaw Alphabet, too.)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...



Thu Nov 2, 2000 8:53 pm

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... Are you talking about the so-called "simplified" characters? These are the hanzi that I've been taught when I studied Chinese, so I am more familiar with...
Marco.Cimarosti@...
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Oct 31, 2000
10:31 am

By the way Marco, is it proper on this list to switch encodings for subject lines and content at will? Or, is this part of an advocacy program to switch to...
Jon Babcock
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Oct 31, 2000
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Ar 31 Oct 2000, ag 8:07 scríobh Jon Babcock ... A better question (for me at least) would be is there a rule about what charset to use on this list? If so,...
Sean O Seaghdha
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Oct 31, 2000
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It's still not clear to me what the purpose of the qalam list was initially, but now that it has turned into a forum for discussing the encoding of Chinese...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 1, 2000
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... the ... Dear Professor Daniels, The purpose of this list, as stated in the Qalam home page (http://www.egroups.com/group/qalam) and already discussed...
Seshat
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Nov 2, 2000
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... They are not, however, discussing Chinese writing, but computers. ... What effort has been made to recruit persons familiar with a variety of scripts to...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 2, 2000
12:47 pm

... They are discussing Chinese writing *on* computers. This is one of the examples of on-topic subjects explicitly listed in the Qalam home page...
Seshat
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Nov 2, 2000
1:38 pm

... Someone familiar with Fontographer might be able to create your font in a weekend or so. (It's _not_ a simple task.) However, your characters are far, far...
Peter T. Daniels
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Nov 2, 2000
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... Yes, I'm talking about those, but I'd like to make a distinction between: 1) characters newly created in the post-1949 PRC (or in usage in ...
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