Re: OT: Conorthography aesthetics (WAS: Re: Featural code based on ...
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 17:59 |
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:16:54PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> Beyond the atrocious use of "3" as a letter, I don't think that's even
> close to the terribleness of Peter's system.
Well, this sample text happened to be rather OK in terms of the relative
lack of atrocious features (besides the 3's and 0's). There is the smooth
breathing prefix "`", the use of repeated letters for long vowels, and the
"~" affix for nasalization, all of which can attach to a single vowel.
E.g., _`ww~'i_ for ["w8~?i]. Or, as a real-word example, _l3~ka's33_.
Granted, this doesn't happen all the time, but still...
The LaTeX orthography, however, doesn't suffer from the limitations of
ASCII, and therefore looks rather nice.
T
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