Re: Fonts, was Re: New to list

Theodore Kloba:

>Would I mind?  See my notes about "Open Content" and have fun!
I checked out the Open Content copyright page linked to your page.  I think
I just might go the same route with my work.  I want to protect my work, but
not in a way that keeps others from doing their own improvements, since my
stuff is "for the people".

>Actually, I've already made a font for "Abibin."  I needed it in order to
>create the chart and the sample sentences.  I'm not totally happy with it
>though.  I could send you the TTF if you'd like to try improving it.  I
>don't have a proper font creation program, so I just used CorelDRAW! to
>create & export to TTF.  It was a trick getting the vowel marks to land
>before the cursor (on the previous character) and not advance.  The
>vertical spacing is also a problem because of the long descenders.
The only thing I got is a shareware program called Softy, and I still can't
figure out how to use it.  It looks like an old Windows 3.x program, at
least in terms of its interface.  I really haven't had any use for it,
except to view all the glyphs in a font.  I was able to produce a bitmap
font for an older version of Tech (when I was experimenting with
Sabaean/South Arabian script), but I finally decided on the alphasyllabry of
Ethiopic (Ge'ez), Amharic, Tigre _et al_.

>As for "Agryziexabieuie," I need to finalize the choice of characters
>first.  If you look at the Georgian and Armenian fonts on
>charts.unicode.org, you can get an idea of the "feel" I wanted.
Georgian and Armenian.  I love those alphabets!  You know you could design a
two-case (upper and lower) alphabet, and on the Unicode chart page, there is
upper case in Georgian, though it is rarely used today.  It's called Xutsuri
('ecclesiastical'), and the modern unified case is called Mxedruli
('military').

I'm looking at an overview of Georgian grammar, and it is VERY interesting.
There's an online grammar at http://www.armazi.demon.co.uk, along with a lot
of other stuff on Georgia and Caucasia.  Also, you can get a ton of Georgian
fonts somewhere on the FTP site of the Parliament of Georgia
(ftp://ftp.parliament.ge -- it's in the /pub subdirectory if I'm thinking
right).

One more thing -- I'm working on a shorthand script based on Syriac with
Arabic influence, and I gotta put up my work today if I can beat the
clock...

Danny

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