Re: Translation challenge: Fiat lingua

Manisu,

From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 5:49 AM

> Kalalya palt.  "Let be language."  Cohortative for
> "parem," be, "let be."
So is that what "Fiat Lingua" means? I'm sorry, but I have
never had a single lesson in Latin. I can only guess from my
mediocre seven years of French. However, if it means "Let be
language", then it would be certainly _Sira ramyu yomayam
naranoin_, 'Let exist *language*'. I've sent you a picture
of that, Sai. Unfortunately, I have no font for Tahano
Nuhikamu, becuase it's too difficult. I hope technology is
advanced enough to make one in, say, five or ten years. It
should already be possible to make such a font using
OpenType features and Unicode, but unfortunately most of
what I need is not yet supported by most programs, let alone
Windows itself (hope WinVista will improve that, but I bet
it won't).

> Wish I had a downloadable fontmaker.  Then I could make a
> font for Teonaht and send it to you, Sai.
I am using Fontforge.* It's a Linux program, but it runs on
Windows via Cygwin as well. It's a little complicated to set
up Cygwin regarding which packages to download, and I have
heard people complaining about that it has messed up their
hard disk**, but once it and Autotrace runs, you can easily
install Fontforge -- you need both FF and Autotrace
specially compiled for Cygwin of course. Fontforge uses
Autotrace to trace the outlines of bitmaps when importing
them into FF: It's better to design a letter in a vector
graphic program and save the contour as .BMP or the main path
of the letter as .SVG or .EPS and import *that* into FF
instead of directly trying to draw things in FF which may
be a little complicated, at least I have found so.

Carsten

*) I haven't had any problems at all. Maybe it's just an
issue related to older versions?

**) Ban me if I should get too annoying with
"advertisement" ... But hey, I like that program so I
promote it ;-)

--
"Miranayam kepauarà naranoaris." (Kalvin nay Hobbes)
Pinena, Rayam 20, 2315 ya 07:49:21 pd

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