Re: A conlang idea rolling around in my head

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From: "Garth Wallace" <gwalla@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: A conlang idea rolling around in my head


> Jean-François Colson wrote:
> >
> > From: "Garth Wallace" <gwalla@...>
> >
> >>Gary Shannon wrote:
> >>
> >>>I call it the "LOTEP" number of a glyph. I count
> >>>L = the number of complete Loops or enclosed areas
> >>>(e.g., "P" and "#" have 1, "8" and "B" have two each).
> >>>O = the number of Odd junctions (e.g. "T" has an odd
> >>>number of lines entering the junction at the top).
> >>>T = the number of Terminal, or endpoints, (e.g. "W"
> >>>and "H" have 2 each while "Y" and "E" have 3
> >>>endpoints).
> >>>E = the number of even-parity junctions (e.g., "X" has
> >>>one central junction with an even number of lines
> >>>leading into it).
> >>>P = the number of seperate Pieces (e.g. lower case "i"
> >>>has two seperate, unattached pieces.)
> >>>
> >>>Odd and Even junctions are counted only for junctions
> >>>with more than 2 lines entering them.  A junction with
> >>>2 lines in considered to be a continuous single line
> >>>that turns a corner, and is not counted as a junction.
> >>
> >>That's an interesting system. More abstract than the radicals that kanji
> >>dictionaries use.
> >
> > But somewhat similar (I didn't say identical) to the De Roo codes or the
> > four corner coding system.
>
> I'm not familiar with those. Could you explain?
>
I don't need to explain it because that's already explained on the Web
better than I could do:
- De Roo codes: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic_doc.html#IREF15
- four corner coding system:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic_doc.html#IREF12

The Skip codes are interesting too:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic_doc.html#IREF11


Jean-François Colson
jfcolson@belgacom.net

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