> Hi everyone,
>
> After my Ebisedian informant recently picked up interest in Classical
> Greek, he suddenly decided that the Roman orthography I made for
> transcribing Ebisedian would look *much* better if I used iotas instead of
> dotless i's for /i/. So I tried it out, and I must say I agree with him
> (for once!).
>
> You can see the results here:
>
http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/grammar.pdf
>
http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/lexicon.pdf
>
http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/tutorial.pdf
>
> For the PostScript-enabled folk, you can also view the PostScript versions
> of these files by replacing the .pdf with .ps.
>
> Thanks to the flexibility of LaTeX and my orthography-to-LaTeX convertor,
> replacing these dotless i's with iotas were a breeze. It certainly looks
> much better, and solves the problem of two dotless i's looking too much
> like a 'u', etc.. And I must say, it does make Ebisedian look a lot more
> stylish than before. Hopefully this will hasten the day when Ebisedian can
> finally shed its freaklang reputation. :-)
>
>
> T
>
I think ASCII Ebisedian is responsible for much of that reputation. The
only way it will be able to shed it will be through universal adoption of
Unicode. And a new grammar.