Re: Non-verbal writing.

On 12/5/06, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
> There are ways to mark tone in writing, like the Greek accents for
> example. They can be elaborated widely. Symbols expressing a certain
> emotion, even crude ones like familiar emoticons, are augmented by
> the context of the written words, and they can be refined. [...]
This is a code for a spoken language's encoding of emotion. Works
perhaps, but has all the problems of any transliteration / code; it's
not really directly adapted to the medium.

How would you go about encoding the emotion without reference to (or
need to simulate) the spoken version, i.e. written-mode-only?

Some basic ideas:
* color
* font
* positioning / size (to designate relative importance or emphasis)
* visual layout that triggers facial-detection neural response (e.g.
as a crude version: ascii art smiley vs frowny using the text desired)

... but I think something better could be developed.

 - Sai