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Re: A conlang idea rolling around in my head

From:Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>
Date:Sunday, December 7, 2003, 8:39
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From: "Garth Wallace" <gwalla@...>
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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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