Re: Piktok Pictogram drawing tool for download

En réponse à Greg Johnston :


>A SHINING RAY OF BRILLIANCE FILLS GREG!
>
>I just got a great idea. What if you/we made a program (for glyph word
>processing) where you had a list of maybe 1000 basic words and then you
>put the source of a .bmp or other picture file for a glyph and attached it
>to that word. Then you had an input box where you typed a word and
>hit "enter" and it put the glyph on the screen.
I don't know if what you mean is exactly what I understand, but Japanese 
word processors do something similar: when someone wants to type a word in 
kanji, they type it first in hiragana (one of their syllabaries, which is 
phonemic) and a window pops up with a choice of kanji (because many 
Japanese homophones are written with different kanji, so you often have to 
choose which one fits the word you mean), and once chosen the kanji 
replaces the hiragana just written. IIRC Chinese word processors have a 
similar system where words are written in Pinyin and replaced by the hanzi 
(I've heard some word processors use a system where you type down the 
strokes rather than a pronunciation, and the software is able to pick up 
the right ideogram. That could also be an idea).

Anyway, you should maybe try to look into word processors for those 
languages to see how they work. They would probably give you ideas how to 
handle this for your own conlang. However, those systems use fonts rather 
than images (it takes less place on disk and is more standard), so you 
should look first into making your own fonts. How knows, maybe there are 
already tools available which can be adapted to other languages, even 
conlangs! (look into open source software. Maybe there are word processors 
for Asian languages which allow that).

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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