>
> The idea is that you could have many different alphabets or pictographs on
> a conlang website using only one single font that users could download and
> install. That way they could look at your web site, and if you added new
> pictographs they wouldn't have to download a new font, since the one font
> is capable of displaying all your pictographs, even ones you haven't invented
> yet.
>
> It seems that in my multi-year project cycle the idea bubbled to the surface
> again and I created a True Type font that can be used to draw pictographs,
> alphabetical characters, syllabary symbols, or whatever. Basically, a
> certain "squiggle" is assigned to a particular key stroke, with the squiggle
> being drawn in the lower half of the grid space when the lower case key is
> used, and in the upper half of the grid space when the upper case version is
> used.
>
> You can look at some samples, and instructions (and download the ttf font
> itself if you're interested) at <
http://fiziwig.com/glyph/fragz01.html>
>
>I call the font Fragmentz (fragz.ttf)
>
>
>--gary
Nice idea! I tried it out. Unfortunately, IE6 has trouble displaying the
assembled pictures at the bottom: it looks like there's an extra shift to the
right with each character. However, the first 9bgB comes out OK except for
being cut off a little on the right. Firedfox had no trouble except for the cut
off. Opera completely refuses to use the font.
Jeff