Re: Gwr script

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> And so back to conlanging. I've just put up a very preliminary version
> of
> Gwr script-- http://cinduworld.tripod.com/gwr_script.htm  (thats
> "gwr_script").  Comments/critiques/bashing etc. more than welcome,
> indeed
> appreciated, as I'm not 100% in love with it yet.  But this does capture
> the
> basic idea.
>
Well, I find that the script has some familiarity with the Itakian native
script! :))) Did you see the picture I made for it? (if not, just ask me and
I'll send it to you) The shapes have some resemblance, but the system is
different. The Itakian script is an inverse abugida, while the Gwr script looks
more like an illegitimate child of the Devanagari and Korean scripts :))) , two
of my favourite scripts by the way :) . I saw also that some shapes could be
easily confused (like the ones for /g/ and /N/, or the ones for /S/ and /h/),
but as you know I consider possible ambiguities as features rather than
bugs ;))) . The tone notation is interesting, if maybe a little *too*
straghtforward. On the other hand, if it's a recent feature the Gwr adopted in
their script (maybe until recently they didn't bother noting tone, just like in
Itakian tone is not marked in the native script), I'd expect it to be
straightforward.

> I wonder if it will be possible to make a font for it???? (For Kash, I
> managed to get the small vowel symbols to appear inside the "L"
> character,
> but Gwr will require a lot more tinkering than that, if it can be done
> at
> all with High-Logic's FCP-- which I now plan to buy).
>
I'm pretty sure METAFONT could handle that very easily. But of course, you'd
need to learn LaTeX to enjoy it then ;)) . I'm currently (during the little
moments of pause I allow myself between the slow construction of the Conlang
Journal) learning METAFONT, so in a few months maybe I'll be able to create a
font for you :)) . Otherwise, except for the positioning of the tone marks I
don't see what really needs tickering. A normal True Type font could probably
handle most of the features of this script. Or did I miss something that should
be obvious?

Christophe.

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