--- JS Bangs <jaspax@...> wrote:
> Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
>
> > Added the start of the next section describing my
> new
> > pictographic conlang work in progress Piktok.
<snip>
> Surprisingly aesthetic. What are you using to draw
> the glyphs? If I didn't know
> better I'd say it was metafont or some other
> automatic drawing program.
>
I am drawing the glyphs free-hand using Paintshop Pro
and my mouse. I draw them superimposed on a grid to
help me keep my hand steady, and I draw them very
large, usually 500 pixels tall or more. Then UI clean
up the edges a bit and shrink them down.
As a computer programmer I am seriously thinking about
writing a program to do the drawing for me. I would
specify the pen shape and the pen path and let the
program draw the smoothed bitmap.
> You don't ever discuss the phonetic forms, which I
> find very interesting. When
> you do anticipate having something for those up?
>
I'm refining the design of the phonetic forms right
now. I'll probably have them up later this evening or
sometime tomorrow. They are based loosely on Shavian
letter forms, but use the same form for the voiced and
unvoiced consonant with a "swash" on the glyph to
indicate the voiced form.
--gary
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> JS Bangs
> jaspax@glossopoesis.org
>
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> Because it's too hard to count the dead."
> -Jason Webley