Hi Matt,--On Monday, June 20, 2005 10:48 AM -0400 Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net> wrote:
I didn't keep optional things in mind. However, since people will want
to use Lojbanized names with irregular stress, and talk about {selma'o},
an alternate character set analogous to capitals will be needed. As for
the comma syllable separator, I've never seen it used and it seems
utterly unnecessary to me. These could be expansion projects but not very
high priority personally. By the way, I'm currently working on
arranging a MessyBoard (www.messyboard.org) for Lojbanists to use on
things like this. -epkat
If you don't have spaces between words, then you need a way of indicating stress. (With spaces between words, the stress falls on the penultimate syllable by default, and does not have to be indicated.) Without stress indication the speech stream could be parsed in more than one way.
It would also be nice to allow for words to be denoted - perhaps a flat line on the baseline. That way the pen does not have to be lifted, but the letters would be grouped. That might also solve the stress denotation problem.
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