Re: Ebisedian orthography facelift

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:55:12PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote:
> 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.
<brandishing +3 Sceptre of Nitpick and Pedantry>

Knuth only wrote TeX; LaTeX is the gift through Leslie Lamport, a
*Microsoft employee* !!!

</brandishing +3 Sceptre of Nitpick and Pedantry>

> Teoh _could_ make a TrueType or Type1 font, but such is not the TeXian
> way, for such ways lead to dark places.
Or rather, my hand is forced by the (un)fortunate fact that decent Type1
font editors do not exist on Linux...

> No, Teoh wants to use the One True Font Format: METAFONT.
That's right. But for producing PDFs and PS's that people on this list can
actually read, I probably have to resort to type 1 anyway. :-)

> Unfortunately, MF is hidden and its usage arcane to all but the most
> priviledged of TeX accolades.
However, I have access to the METAFONTbook, and have read it several
times, once the words themselves, the second time between the lines, and
the third time between the pages. Now I await to unleash its hidden powers
upon the unsuspecting masses of CONLANG! >:->

> 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.
Not really... I am more awaiting my stubborn Ebisedian informant to
introduce me to the Ebisedi scribes who actually know how to write proper
_sanoki'_, as opposed to himself, who writes "street-sanoki'"[1], a
mangled, over-simplified, dumbed-down, catered-to-the-masses, and just
plain UGLY, mangling of the real _sanoki'_.


[1] Cringe, ye masses, at the horrific multilingual compound! Muahahaha...

> 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.
Now this, I will have to find out for sure from the _hoKasanii'_
[hok_hasa"ni:] in Ferochromon. They will send their agents to Libertia[2]
and ferret out any existing Metafont Tutorial manuscripts from the
trenches Christophe is purportedly hiding in. They may well be accompanied
by the flying noodles from Cretaea,[3] if they manage to convince Arthaey
to introduce them to the right folks. ;-)


[2] That is to say, France, to be Americanally-incorrect.

[3] Be glad they are not bringing with them some unscrupulous _3by0nui'_
from one renegade _`yKasanii'_...

> In the meantime, countless fonts weep, for they have not been written.
And I have dutifully collected their tears in the form of the teardrop
accents over smooth-breathing vowels in the Ebisedian Roman orthography.
:-P

> (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.)
[snip]

Perhaps we should sick the flying noodles to *you* then. Clearly, you are
pasta-challenged. :-P


T

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