[lojban] Re: Original orthography draft now online for critique

["LakMeer Kravid" <lakmeerkravid@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Timo Paulssen
<timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
>
>  The script really looks beautiful.
Thanks! My girlfriend helped me pretty it up a lot, she does calligraphy.
>  I have discovered...it's impossible to write spaceless style with it :(
The whole spaceless thing isn't really a big deal, it was just an
aesthetic demonstration :) Please don't get hung up about it.

>  Another thing is that I'm not really sure, if it's really a good idea to
> have "s" be just a dash, even though it really does make sense in that
> quadrangle concept thingie.

>  It might be possible to use a small (or big) flick below the letters to
> mark stressed syllables, but i'm not sure how to remedy the S thing.
I completed rev1 some weeks ago, and rev2 is already quite healthy.
I'm going with a bar that floats above the letters in a Devanagari
sort of way to mark stresses, mainly thinking of notating cmene.
The S is a bit dodgy looking in that version of the font, because the
kerning is all equal and the text looks really drawn out. I'll post
rev2 when I can, where the kerning has been adjusted to be a bit more
natural and the S is a bit clearer.

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  My suggestion for the vowels is that you interchange e and i,
>  and also a and u, that way the patterns make more sense, and also the
>  diphthongs get the lighter symbols.
Funny you should say, this is originally how I had them! I changed
them because I'm also working on a simplified, non-cursive version for
everyday handwriting, where the vowels simplify to characters which
resemble logical operators while matching the cmavo. That is to say,
when you write {.e} it looks like ∧ and {.a} looks like ∨. As for
whether this nifty feature take precedence over the more intuitive
arrangement, I humbly ask this list for advice.

Thanks for your comments! All criticisms are welcomed.