Re: Basic Font for Asha'ille Script

On Jan 28, 2009, at 8∞45 PM, Chris Wright wrote:�> I'd like to design a font
for Sturnan, but that might be somewhat�> difficult -- it's an abugida, so
the vowels are non-spacing�> characters, and each vowel has two forms
depending on whether it's�> before or after the consonant it appears on. I
think I would need to�> find a collection of fourteen non-spacing characters
and about twenty�> spacing characters, and then come up with a corresponding
keyboard�> layout.��This isn't hard to do, if you have the appropriate
program. The�font for Sheli, for example--you can see a sample
here:��http://dedalvs.conlang.org/sheli/main.html��--has several
characters that don't space--for example, all the�vowels. The consonants are
on top, and the vowels are on the�bottom, so consonants advance, and vowels
don't. There are�also several diacritics that appear over consonants or
under�vowels (preceding consonants and vowels).��I don't quite understand
what you mean by "finding" a collection�of non-spacing characters... The
fonts I create, while perhaps not�Unicode compliant, just use the regular
ASCII values, which works�just
fine.��-David�*******************************************************************�"A
male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.conlang.org/�