Re: "Ideographic" writing systems for the Millions

--- Patrick Dunn <pdunn@...> wrote:

> (Yo, hi, I'm Patrick, I come, I go, I crumble under
> stress, I write books,
> I come back, I start dissertation, I delete lots of
> messages, I lurk, I post)
>
> Has anyone made a serious effort to create a writing
> system like Chinese
> or Hieroglyphs for one of their conlangs?  I have
> toyed it with, on and off,
> but the major problem is bookkeeping, of course.
> Any technical solutions to
> that problem?
My pictographic language had several thousand
words/symbols.  Enough so that I could use it to write
my journal every day.  Unfortunately, a house fire
about 10 years ago destroyed the only copy I had of
the dictionary and I haven't gotten around to
reconstructing more than a few dozen words of it.

As for puting the dictionary in order I used a system
I called "LOTEP" that allowed a single "index number"
to be easily assigned to every possible glyph.
There's a piece of the web page you can look at (with
some old/broken liknks) but it explains how the system
worked.  see http://fiziwig.com/piktok.html

I haven't worked on this in a long time, and the glyph
design program mentioned has long since been replaced
with a better one.  But what little there is left of
the web page should give you some ideas of where I was
going with it.

--gary