On 7 April 2010 19:30, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Alan Post <alanpost@sunflowerriver.org> wrote: >> >> I'm particularly drawn to the aesthetic of á é í ó ú to mark stress, >> rather than capital letters. I like this because I'm more >> confortable with diacritic marks than I am with the idea of a letter >> having two distinct written forms. On that particular example alone >> I get interested in non-ASCII characters. > > I use stress marked by accents (when I must mark it at all, which is > seldom) in handwriting. > > Am I correct in remembering that even in standard Lojban orthography > it is not invalid to mark stress on only the vowel, rather than the > consonants of the syllable as well? > > If so, I suggest that the two approaches can be merged harmoniously. > All it takes is the creation of Lojbanic fonts wherein the accented > vowels (and accented versions of the consonants able to be syllabic) > are the "capital" forms. From the perspective of a computer, this > means staying in the ASCII realm; it also means that although the font > isn't the one you're used to using, the characters used within that > font are the standard ones and you're not actually deviating from the > ASCII orthography - just displaying it differently to anyone who > happens to have the right font. For everyone who likes things to look > the way they do with capitalization, they just don't install the font, > and they see your (still correct) Lojban rendered the way they're used > to. > > Anyone know how to use their favorite font editor? If so, hack up your > favorite open-sourced font that's suitable for body text, distribute > it, and because writing with that assumption doesn't actually break > the standards (unless I'm wrong about the vowel thing, in which case > you want to make the consonants have identical capital and lowercase > forms for the same effect and then you'll have things break whenever > you want to accent a syllabic consonant) it requires no validation > from the LLG or the BPFK - just people installing a new font for > reading Lojban in, and that only if they feel like it. There's actually one I tweaked a while ago (attached to this mail). The glyphs are based on some supposedly free font I downloaded from somewhere, but it looks identical to Verdana, so I'm not too sure whether it's truly open-source. I added the acute to every consonant in the capital section as well, so you can type "LERfu" (if that's your preference) and get each letter in that syllable marked. mu'o mi'e tijlan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.
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