Re: Unicode Fonts

En réponse à Jonathan Lipps <jon832@...>:

[snip beginning of the explanation]

>
> There are 15 consonants. Any of these can take as an accent-like symbol
> any
> of the 25 vowel glyphs.  This makes for a total 375
> consonant+vowel-group
> glyphs.  Each consonant, like each vowel/vowel-group, can appear without
> an
> accent-like vowel.  So, 375 + 15 + 25 = 415 possible characters in
> Enaselvai.
>
There is a simple way to solve this problem: what's nice about ttf fonts is
that you can specify the width of each character, and even make zero-witdh
characters (characters which don't take place :))) ). This can be used to make
diacritics which will appear on the other characters.

So you just need in this case the 15 consonants without anything on them, the
25 standing alone vowels glyphs, and the 25 vowel diacritics as zero-width
characters, so only 65 glyphs needed, for the same result!

Moreover, since this font will then have less than 255 characters, you can also
maybe solve the problem you're facing. Though since I've never done anything
like this, I cannot give you more advice on this.

Where did you get that font program? Anybody has an opinion about it? I'm
considered making a font for Itakian, but I wonder what freeware font creators
are worth...

>
> Also, I'll be uploading a website about Enaselvai shortly, and I hope
> that
> some of you will find it interesting!
>
We will for sure! Don't forget to give us the address! :))

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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