From deletesoftware@yandex.ru Tue Jun 21 11:24:20 2005 Return-Path: Date: Tue Jun 21 11:24:20 2005 X-Sender: deletesoftware@yandex.ru X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 28381 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2005 18:24:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m25.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 21 Jun 2005 18:24:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx14.yandex.ru) (213.180.200.14) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2005 18:24:19 -0000 Received: from h115.keldysh.ru ([194.226.57.115]:38148 "EHLO [194.226.57.115]" smtp-auth: "deletesoftware" TLS-CIPHER: "RC4-MD5 keybits 128/128 version TLSv1/SSLv3" TLS-PEER-CN1: ) by mail.yandex.ru with ESMTP id S1782770AbVFUSYL (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:24:11 +0400 X-Comment: RFC 2476 MSA function at mx14.yandex.ru logged sender identity as: deletesoftware Message-ID: <42B7EAEE.3070707@yandex.ru> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:24:46 +0400 Organization: Delete Software Limited User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Arnold References: <1119217594.8641.7.camel@localhost> <200506201344.j5KDiLTd003997@mole.e-mol.com> In-Reply-To: <200506201344.j5KDiLTd003997@mole.e-mol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 213.180.200.14 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 From: "Aleksej R. Serdyukov" Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban neography X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=209292576; y=ve_ZrPM1Q2ztJh5AKUPDLBmJp88xrpN8eGPXo1mmJfDisUGECMGdq2Q X-Yahoo-Profile: deletesoftware X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24595 Matt Arnold wrote: > coi rodo, > A couple of years ago I read of Eric S. Raymond's Tengwar orthography for Lojban (http://www.catb.org/~esr/tengwar/lojban-tengwar.html) and it got me thinking about Lojban alphabets. I had an idea which I've been working on for a couple of years, to design an alphabet along certain principles: > 1. Each word would be written without the pen leaving the page; no dotting i's or crossing t's. A gap in the line would represent the period character, which is a pause. > 2. Unlike cursive, the baseline would be in the vertical center instead of at the bottom, so that voiced consonants and vowels would tend to be descenders, and unvoiced consonants would tend to be ascenders. How would it be to use on a computer? {se'i} I want an alphabet that would be both simple to hand-write and to computer-use. Is there an alphabet generator? I think it should have options like: - the smallest angle difference used (small to bigger: "-" or "\" or "|" or "/"; "-" "|" or "\" "/"; "-" "|" "/" with small inclination; "-" "|" "/" "\" ) - crossing possible - double-crossing possible - round forms - round forms crossing and double crossing - more complex forms ("S", "R" etc) - base inclination (90 degree, 45 degree etc) And not requiring solid continuous writing.