Re: Given Up on Roman Orthography
| From: | BP.Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 14, 1999, 0:26 |
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At 00:19 on 14.1.1999, Vladimir Vysotskii wrote:
> >There is a third way, which makes things immediately available to everyone,
> >without having to download fonts, without transcoding problems and
> >regardless of whether they have a browser that can handle Unicode (they
> >need to have a graphic browser, tho): to include small transparent .gif
> >images of each glyph in the html text.
> >
> >BTW: I saw a site once where someone displayed arabic script this way, with
> >one .gif per letter, quite seamlessly. It would be hard with vertically
> >written cursive scripts like classical Mongolian though... ;)
>
>
> In case anyone's interested, I've created a small Java applet which
> displays a string in an outline font. In fact I was aiming at this exactly -
> displaying the vertical Mongolian-inspired cursive text of my would-be
> conlang. However, the applet can display horizontal and oblique fonts
> as well - only there are no fonts yet :)
Could the applet be changed to *draw* the character rather than using a
font, defining each char as a low-resolution bitmap? That would overcome
the difficulty with downloading fonts, different computers using different
font formats, etc.
It just occurs to me that Funus script (my conscript) would require users
to check a radio-button to indicate if they are left or right handed, since
the script runs right-left for leftie writers and left-right for rightie
writers, with the characters mirror-turned accordingly!
Which reminds me I have to decide how Funus should be vocalized (fitted
with vowels, that is...)
> The applet, its source code and my font will soon be available
> from my web page
http://www.crocodile.org/~trivee for anyone
> to use (under Artistic license). I'm also willing to help anybody
> to create their own fonts.
>
> Regards and Happy Old New Year,
> Vladimir.