Re: OT: Conorthography aesthetics (WAS: Re: Featural code based on ...

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 02:31 , H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 02:02:26PM +0100, Ray Brown wrote:
> [snip]
>>> the LaTeX orthography looks
>>> *much* better. Now, if I'd only get off my lazy butt and build that long
>>> planned font for _sanoki'_, the writing system of Ebisedian...
>>
>> Please do! If I actually like Ebisedians ASCII transcription, I'm dying
>> to see the actual sanoki writing system.
> [snip]
>
> Well, I've yet to finish designing the writing system first. :-) But in
> the meantime, you can see a better version of Ebisedian orthography, done
> in LaTeX, in these documents:
>
> [PDF]           http://quickfur.ath.cx:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.pdf
> [PostScript]    http://quickfur.ath.cx:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.ps
>
> It's more or less the same as the ASCII, except that LaTeX allows me to
> create multiple diacritics and use some IPA letterforms, so it is visually
> more attractive.
Thanks, I've download & got hard copy of the pdf document.  I shall read it
with interest.

I guess the IPA with diacritics sort of looks neater, but whether more
visually
attractive I'm not so certain. Attractiveness is, I suppose, essentially a
subjective attribute.   But to me the IPA with diacritics looks like sort
orthography
that might be given to some hitherto unwritten language.  It reminds me
most of
some orthographies I've seen for some African languages.

What I liked about the ASCIIfied Ebisedian is its unusualness - it give it
a very
distinctive character of its.  Obviously, sanoki must be even more
distinctive -
so get off your butt & give us sanoli  :-)

Ray
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