Re: RFC: A writing system for Eretas

* Keith Gaughan said on 2002-09-23 15:48:21 +0200
> While I've been away, I've put in a fair bit of work on revising one of
> my languages, Eretas. Part of that work was coming up with a writing system
> for it. What I came up with was a featural code that looks as if it borders
> on being an abjad.
>
> [1] http://hereticmessiah.weblogs.com/2002/09/23
Hehe, Mongolian is pretty alright, but manchu is prettier. I have a
"manchified" script, see http://taliesin.nvg.org/taruven/sketches/cursive.html
as well, but in most cases I do not rely solely on mirroring to increase
the number of shapes, often the mirrored version has an extra hook or two.

> I'm kind of interested in what everybody thinks of it primarily from an
> aesthetic point of view. The post[1] contains a fair bit of detail on how
> the writing system itself works, but I've yet to actually write an entry
> that describes it in full.
There is a bothersome optic effect there. See the 's'-part? It looks like the
stem (the | ) is further to the right than the other stems. This might not be
visible in larger amounts of text though. BBarret, our resident typographer,
ought to know.


t.