Hi all, I already knew that such things as "chromatographic scripts" existed, but I came upon an example of one for the first time today (the Edo script of...
Hello, I would be glad to know from the members of the list about references to documents using Arabic script for translating artificial languages (human...
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:27:43 -0000, stephanebertho ... Google had about 600 hits when told to look for [lycian script]. I didn't look at any of the links it...
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:23:49 -0000, node_ue <node_ue@...> wrote: [...] ... Most interesting to know that there's a real-world example, and from Africa, as...
(More comment) Considering the sophistication and variety of almost-all-monochrome glyphs, it seems somewhat surprising that color[u]r has not been used more ...
I heard that Aztec writing system uses colours (and textures) as a sign. For exemple blue is "atl" (I'm not sure) that means "precious" (a blue mountain is a...
... As I think about it, actually, it doesn't seem so surprising. Expensive or not, multicolor writing requires much more complicated writing equipment to be...
node_ue wrote:
> Also, if this were to be encoded in Unicode, how would that be done? > Would only 3 glyphs be encoded, with the color decided by markup? Or...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Jan 8, 2004 9:41 am
2004
... Unicode encodes characters, not pieces of glyphs... E.g., letter "K" is encoded as a single character code, not as a code for the left-side stem "I" plus a...
... ["But, in practice, the matter is programming a software (a font) which takes the Unicode code (...) and assigns to it a colored glyph."] The current...
Marco Cimarosti
marco.cimarosti@...
Jan 8, 2004 11:49 am
2006
... There are conventions in heraldry for representing the 7 tinctures (colors) when arms are depicted in monochrome (different hatchings). I like the notion...
... Few people are so color-blind that they cannot tell the differences among a range of sharply differentiated colors, especially if low-value (pastel) colors...
... This is not accurate. The OpenType GDEF table specification does not include a property for colour; rather, the 'mark' property has been used by MS Office...
... There isn't a Type 2 font format per se, but there is a Type 2 Charstring, i.e. a method of expressing font outlines, which is used in CFF fonts, e.g. PS...
... Colors: Red (Gules): vertical lines Blue (Azure): horizontal lines Green (Vert): diagonal, top left to lower right Purple (Purpure): diagonal, top right to...
... Yes, indeed. Although what you say is essentially obvious, I hadn't thought of how inconvenient it would be to change color all the time. However... One...
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:41:32 +0100, Marco Cimarosti ... Being someone who has more than a passing interest in typography, I'm very impressed by the Unicode book...
Another example where color was used for writing are the diacritical marks in red, green, yellow, blue, standing for vowels and sukun (absence of vowel) in the...
... OUP hired a freelance designer, and I poured the text and tables into her format. Where fonts weren't available through Ecological Linguistics, I created...
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 01:31:27 -0000, utc19700417 <atanasiu@...> ... Most interesting. ... I went to Mr. Atanasiu's site, URL just above; it's in French,...
I am catching up on the postings on this subject and was interested to see the Nigerian chromatographic example cited. I know the creator of these scripts,...
Konrad T. Tuchscherer...
tuchschk@...
Jan 11, 2004 3:10 am
2018
Try: neara.org/topics/epigraph.htm for a chart of the Lycian alphabet. B. J. de Berzsenyi "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote: ... ? If you...
I am just a neophite to most everybody on this site, I just happen love alphabets and scripts. However the only other example that I can think of where color...
I was wondering if anyone here knows how to write Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs? B/c i'm teaching myself to read and write them and i'm a little confused on how...
... Ordinarily one would not be encouraged to try to make up utterances in a long-dead language. As you study a wide variety of texts, you will get a feel for...
I'm very interested in ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. So I decided to get a book on how to learn to read and write them. The only thing is I'm very confused on...
... You mean, you want to learn the Ancient Egyptian language? The textbook by James Allen might (just might) be suitable for someone to use without a teacher....
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