Re: Basic Font for Asha'ille Script

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Chris Wright <dhasenan@...> wrote:
> The content-type for that seems not to be set correctly.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now.

> The metafont version looks reasonably nice, and the FontStruct one
> seems clear enough -- suitable for a newspaper, perhaps.
I'm using it for studying on FlashcardDB.com, so I can finally learn
my own script. ;)

> 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.
Multiple forms and a good keyboard layout are a problem for me too, as
well as good kerning and ligatures.

The link to your Sturnan letters page --
http://gareis.free.fr/alphabet.html -- 404s, FYI.


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