>
>
> >Graphite? What's that, apart from what greyleads
> are
> >made of?
>
> Here's the post Herman sent about Graphite just 10
> days ago :)) . I still
> have it. I just haven't had time to look at it much
> in detail yet.
Ah, thanks. I was nomail 10 days ago... I'm going
nomail again now because the computer with the
internal ADSL modem refuses to boot and my only other
option is a laptop i.e. something you can't put an
internal modem into. *Sigh*. (BTW: any progress on
48-hr day?)
> From: Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
> Subject: SIL's WorldPad and Graphite
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>
> >These look interesting:
> >
>
>
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=WorldPadDownload&_sc=1
>
>
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=RenderingGraphite&_sc=1
> >
> >Graphite is a technology for rendering complex
> scripts by reading extra
> >tables that are added to Windows TrueType fonts,
> and WorldPad is a basic
> >word processor that uses this technology. There's
> even a project to make
> >a version of Mozilla with Graphite support. They
> have sample fonts that
> >illustrate complex features of scripts like Tamil
> and Burmese. There's
> >an IPA font that can handle contour tones, stacked
> diacritics,
> >diacritics on letters with ascenders and
> descenders, positioning of the
> >superimposed tilde diacritic, etc. I started adding
> some Graphite
> >features to my OlaeUni font; it takes some getting
> used to, but it's
> >pretty powerful once you figure out how it works. I
> don't think I'll
> >have any difficulty adapting the Kazvarad or
> Neesklaaz fonts. You can
> >even add optional features to fonts, so that for
> instance you could deal
> >with ligatures differently in two different
> languages.
> >
>
> Christophe Grandsire.
>
>
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
> You need a straight mind to invent a twisted
> conlang.
>