Re: Vertical script (was: UTF-8 support in *nix terminals)

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:11:53PM +0200, Remi Villatel wrote:
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 00:02, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> > Speaking of fonts, has anyone experimented with purely vertical
> > writing systems? (I.e., one where you simply *cannot* write
> > horizontally without severely crippling the system.) Even better,
> > has anyone gotten vertical writing to actually *work* in an
> > application, say your browser?
>
> Two of the Shaquelingua's scripts are vertical: an alphabetical one
> and a syllabical one. So far, I have a page only for the vertical
> alphabet:
>
> http://home.tele2.fr/mxls/cakesar/vert-alpha.html
>
> It needs improvement but you got the general idea.
>
> Just for fun I also drew an ornamental syllabary:
> http://home.tele2.fr/mxls/images/bli/syllabary.png
Wow, this is nice.


> It's name is /BlitayI/ [b4itaHi]:
> http://home.tele2.fr/mxls/images/bli/blitayi.png
>
> In action, it looks like this:
> http://home.tele2.fr/mxls/images/bli/story.png
This is very nice! I like the calligraphic strokes. Very pretty. Tatari
Faran's prospective script is unfortunately a lot squarer. (But haven't
worked out enough details to show off any samples yet.)


> So far, I haven't seen any application supporting vertical scripts
> natively.  The trick I used was to designed the font as an horizontal
> one and, in the DTP program, I just turned the text frame 1/4 of turn
> to the right so the content appears as intended. The DTP program I use
> even allows me to type vertically. That's disturbing... but fun!
[...]

Heh.


T

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