| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 20, 2008, 19:27 |
Thanks very much for the comments, all! Mark: << At first blush the glyphs seem very Hanzi-esque. Is that intentional, or just due to the similar processes involved? >> I originally wanted them to look like Egyptian hieroglyphs-- actual line drawings--but (1) I reasoned that if people were actually writing them, they'd get simplified; and (2) it became difficult to draw semi-realistically on the computer. I have an entire syllabary written in the old way, and then I "aged" that syllabary, trying to turn it all into images comprised of single strokes (more strokes; fewer curves). Then I tried to make sure all the rest of the glyphs looked like that. Mark: << I would advise putting it in an actual HTML table where the row and column labels are actual text, and each glyph occupies one cell. >> Actually, there is a real table. :) However, as you can see if you go and take a look at it... <http://dedalvs.free.fr/misc/practice0.html> ...it's useless without the font. Oh, but I see: you're suggesting that I make each glyph into an image and put *them* in a table? You know, that certainly would make the mouse-over job easier (as opposed to having to draw up coordinates for each cell), but, man, it would take a long time to generate all those images... Mark: << I would still use the single giant image to avoid the overhead of downloading a zillion tiny ones, though; you can use CSS sprites to show only a single glyph per cell. >> I was unfamiliar with CSS sprites until now (just went web-hunting). Pretty cool! I bet I could do that for all my orthography pages... Mark: << Make the ALT text of each image the Romanized version of the morpheme represented by the glyph, to assist the reader in tracking their position in the table. >> I bet I could also make it so that a red border appears around the box you're at so you can keep track of where you are... Mark: << I'd also have each glyph link to its associated glossary entry, if there is one. >> Not yet, but if I do do it, it'll be based on Arthaey's (which is still the one I like the best, of all those I've seen). Well, I'm off: there is much work to be done! -David ******************************************************************* "sunly eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze." "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." -Jim Morrison http://dedalvs.free.fr/
| Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |