You guys are nuts! Love ya! Off now, for several days. Twill return next
week sometime.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Clark" <peter-clark@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Ebisedian orthography facelift
> On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:06 pm, Sally Caves wrote:
> > Why not just make your own conscript, Teoh, and create a font for it?
> Simple. He does, but with caveats. Because Teoh wants to be able
to use it in
> LaTeX, only one of God's great gifts to humanity, as mediated through His
> servant, Prof. Knuth. Teoh _could_ make a TrueType or Type1 font, but such
is
> not the TeXian way, for such ways lead to dark places. No, Teoh wants to
use
> the One True Font Format: METAFONT. Unfortunately, MF is hidden and its
usage
> arcane to all but the most priviledged of TeX accolades. So Teoh, with
great
> patience, is waiting for the MF tutorial. Which Christophe Grandsire has
been
> promising to start, any day now, for the past six months.
> There are dark rumors on the LaTeX-for-Conlangers list that C.
Grandsire is
> in league with the Evil One to thwart the enlightenment of the masses to
the
> wonders of the One True Font Format, as it was received by Knuth from on
> high, by promising what will never be delivered. In the meantime,
countless
> fonts weep, for they have not been written.
> :Peter
> (Who really needs a break from writing his thesis--kids, don't
write your
> thesis on a stomach full of pizza: it does Bad Things(TM) to your brain.)
> --
> Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
>