Re: Capitalizations (Was: Re: Capitals in Greek (was: Re: Workshops Review #4))

H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> zduais':

>Ebisedian's writing system, sanoki', is semi-syllabic: consonants are
>written with "full glyphs", and vowels following a consonant are written
>as diacritics on the consonant; standalone vowels have a full-glyph
>version. All full glyphs have 4 forms: a regular, non-prominent form, a
>somewhat prominent end-of-word form, a prominent end-of-sentence form, and
>a very embellished end-of-paragraph form. The writing has no spaces; words
>are liberally broken across lines (since the glyph form of the final
>syllable makes it clear where a word ends).
>
>In other words, instead of capitalizing the initial letters in a sentence,
>like English, sanoki' "capitalizes" the *end* of something: a word, a
>sentence, or a paragraph. (Incidentally, this means there are 4 levels of
>"capitalizations" as opposed to only two; although the embellished glyphs
>are mainly just ligatures of the regular glyphs with end-of-word/sentence/
>paragraph "squiggles".)
I've seen mention of sanoki' before, but I can't find anything about it. Do
you have a link or something so I could see the script?

M

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