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

At 07:15 PM 9/15/03 +0100, you wrote:
>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.
I followed the link.  I think the transcription looks fine, but I'm certain
that my husband (who doesn't know IPA) would rather learn to read the
sanoki' than the transcription if he wanted to read it.  He's funny that
way :-)

Isidora

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