Re: Software for writing in a conscript

Hi!

Benct Philip wrote:
>Henrik Theiling wrote:
>...
>> I've used Metafont and Metapost to create fonts, both
>> under Linux (but they work under Windows, too, I assume).
>> Metafont enables you to produce native fonts for LaTeX. In
>> my other project I'm planning to create TTFs somehow from
>> the output of Metapost (not yet done).
>
>Fontforge is said to do quite a decent job of autotracing
>(actually potrace does the tracing) TeX bitmap fonts,
>since these are so high resolution. I haven't gotten it to
>work under cygwin yet, though, mostly for lack of time to
>really try...
>...
Ah, interesting information, thanks!  Will have a look at
that.  It's not for the Metapost project, though, since I
used it instead of Metafont in order to get Postscript curves.
The output seems to be quite easily readable and it is not
rasterized, but fully scalable.  When I have a lot of time,
I want to write some program to try to autoconvert it to
TTF, keeping the scalability.  This is one of my
do-it-yourself-from-scratch projects, which are very time-
consuming but a lot of fun. :-)

As usual with such projects,
even the input for Metapost is generated by a Perl script,
because the script has such a large number of similar
glyphs.

I wanted to show some examples, but the script is not nicely
presentable yet. :-( The design goals are mainly from Ethiopic,
and it was for an agglutinating language with complex sandhi
rules, including regular metathesis.  The script encodes the
sandhi so I'd classify it a morphophonemic syllabary.

**Henrik

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