Re: Ideographic Conlangs

>Set your background in a table; this is ugly HTML and hard to pull off
>well.
The background and border images are supplied by geocities; otherwise I
would do the table thing.

Their HTML editor actually does pixel-by-pixel layout of page elements,
which I didn't like so I went in and took out all their formatting and used
a simple css style sheet (I learned the basics of css yesterday) to keep all
text within the page borders. I wasn't able to define my own font styles,
though. I could change the font for <H1>, but I couldn't do <FONT
CLASS=custom1> or <DIV CLASS=custom1> and change the custom1 style
in css. Do you know of a way to do this?

>Now I have a question on your script:
>How does one tell where one character ends and another begins?  In your
>examples, they all seem to run together in a very confusing manner.  If
>you have space relationships indicating the relation of characters to
>one another, I see no reason to have the characters linked redundantly.
>If you had unlinked characters, in fact, you could have neat
>link-symbols that showed the role of the relationship, as well as the
>existence of one.
Most characters start with a stroke coming in the top, and end with a stroke
going out the bottom. To make compound words, the last stroke of one word
becomes the first stroke of the next. Some of the example words are compound
words; "apple" is four characters, "green" is two; "eat" is one.

I do have link-symbols to show relationships between characters. They are
the symbols with more than two connecting lines. There is one for each verb,
and one for each adjective.

I am still not satisfied with how characters are sometimes hard to tell
apart. I am still trying to come up with ways to make it as clear as
possible while retaining the nature of the language.

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