Re: Typesetting Lojban [was: Lojban word processor for Windows?]

[xod <xod@bway.net>]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> Do you like the fact that all Lojban gismu are of equal length,
> measured in phonemes/letters (5 in all, 3 consonants and 2 vowels)?
> Well, I want the next logical thing:  I also want them to be of
> equal width on paper.  That doesn't have to mean monospace as in
> all characters being of the same width, but I'd like every consonant
> to be as wide as every other, and every vowel as wide as every other
> (perhaps less wide than the consonants).  It makes sense for {' , .}
> to be much narrower than the letters.


Of course, with these conditions the font is no longer monospace.

Check out Lojban set in Caslon, though.


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