Re: Conlang software ideas

On Sun, 7 May 2000 16:50:55 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt
<bsarempt@...> wrote:

>I'm quite close to producing a usable Unicode editor, myself. What I
>need to do is integrate the editor I already have with a
>point-and-click character entry interface, and the basics are ready.
>The problem with Unicode and conlangs is that while there are a lot
>of conlang fonts, none of them have a Unicode encoding. There's a
>fairly usable Java Unicode editor that can run inside a browser,
>and Yudit is usable, too.
(One of these days I'm going to have to get around to installing Linux.)

I can fairly easily change the encoding of a font with Fontographer. It's a
little time-consuming, but not difficult. I haven't done that yet because
typing with an 8-bit character set is easier than manually clicking on
characters on at a time in the Symbol menu in Word. But I could make
Unicode versions of the Olaetyan, Mizarian, and Zirinka scripts. I thought
I also submitted a proposal for Lhoerr, but I don't see it at the ConScript
Unicode Registry.

Besides keyboard input, another reason that I wanted to write an editor is
that some of my scripts require special handling of ligatures and vowel
marks. Niskloz even has ligatures OF vowel marks! Kazvarad has
context-sensitive forms of characters to avoid bumping into other nearby
characters. A couple of scripts are written vertically. Admittedly, those
are scripts I haven't used in a long, long time, but the awkwardness of
using the scripts on the computer is one of the reasons I haven't used
them.

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