Re: First report on Coní
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 20, 2003, 9:21 |
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Staving Shreyas Sampat:
> > /8/ is written |û| as of now (u + circumflex). If this vowel
> > can be prepalatalized (like the other vowels) we have a problem.
> > Prepalatalization is marked by diaresis: |ä| is /ja/. Irregular
> > stress is marked by an acute accent (as in the language name:
> > Coní). How do you combine diaresis and/or acute accent with a
> > circumflex?
>
>My two pieces of jade:
>The trema and acute can cooccur like in Greek. The circumflex could
>rotate down to the bottom of the glyph (so it's like a hammock rather than
>a hat) when other diacritics take up its space.
>
>It's terribly difficult to computer-typeset, yes, but it would be simply
>stunning.
This is all adding weight to the argument that TeX/LaTeX and Metafont
comprise the only practical system for conlanging.
There are two types of computer programs - those written on the assumption
that you know what you want to do, and those written on the assumption that
the programmer knows what you want to do. LaTeX belongs firmly in the
former camp. However, as I discovered while writing my Ph.D. thesis, "Those
who've learned LaTeX swear by it. Those who are learning LaTeX swear at it."
Pete Bleackley
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