Re: Final (?) Senyecan Orthography

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Carsten Becker <naranoieati@B...>
wrote:

Charlie wrote on Tue 16 August 2005, 19:19 MET:

 > I borrowed the idea of double acute from Hungarian,
 > something I couldn't do on WordPerfect.  Hungarian has
 > only the "o" and the "u," but I can use Word's combining
 > diacritical marks for the other four vowels.

>>Which version of Word have you got? I've got 2000 and with
>>this version, the double acute is not a combining letter.
>>Though you can do nice things with Unicode now that the list
>>finally seems to support it:
>>aÌ‹ eÌ‹ ı̋ Å` ű
I have Word 2002.  After a recent crash of my hard drive, the
technician installed Word 2002.  I'm finding it to be a great word
processor.  BTW, all the characters you gave on this message did not
come through to me.

>>Ħ, ħ
>>Ł, ł
>>Æ¿
>>Ê‚
>>ʐ
>>Є, Ñ"
>>Oooh, that evil "İ, ı"
All the above are nothing more than capital letters followed by some
other character(s).  I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what
to do to be able to read those properly.

>>But don't overdo it with the diacritics, a text can easily become
>>illegible then. Also, at least IMNSHO, an overdose of diacritics is
>>unaesthetic.
I have limited the diacritics (accent marks) to indicate the tones
over the vowels.  Diacritics for palatalization (cedilla) and
labialization (inverted breve) are placed under the letter, except
where an ascender would interfere.  It's surprising how infrequently
this happens.

Charlie
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