Re: Introduction, and a Couple Questions

I add my welcome to the pile.  Hope you enjoy and derive value from the
list.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:11:59 -0500, Parker Glynn-Adey
<parkerglynnadey@...> wrote:
>On 27/01/2008, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
>The usual route is approx: phonetics -> phonology -> phonotactics ->
>> nonce words -> morphology -> syntax -> pragmatics. And orthography
>> somewhere in parallel.
>
>Fair enough. That is the progression given in Describing Morphosyntax, no?
At least in that segment that DM treats, that being essentially, you know,
morphosyntax.  But it's also (afaik) the arrangement of a traditional
grammar sketch, which is after all what DM is nominally a guide to writing.

>> >    -I notice that a lot of people have conlangs that take the form of
>> pretty
>> > PDF files, is anyone here a LaTeX user?
>>
>> Several are (though not I). If you need LaTeX help, say so and you'll get
>> it. :)
>
>I'm fluent in mathematical LaTeX, that is, I can typeset all the math I do
>on a daily basis, for homework sets and what not. When I finally get around
>to digitizing all these ideas about my conlang, I'm going to want to LaTeX
>them. I'm sure there is a great deal of writing on using IPA in LaTeX, and I
>think I am going to have to do some trail blazing in making a way to typeset
>my conlanguage's cuneiform inspired script. Maybe METAFONT will get
>involved.
I'm also fluent in mathematical LaTeX.  So far I haven't used it for the
meager bits of anything I've written about my langs for public consumption;
but if for whatever reason I found HTML unsatisfactory for some piece of
documentation LaTeX would be my next choice.

Christophe Grandsire, who's unfortunately left the list, was quite big on
LaTeX/METAFONT for conlanging, and at one point was writing a tutorial for
the latter oriented at conscripters (don't know it's current state).  See
  http://metafont.latex.free.fr/

Among other LaTeXers (and math types) I can point at chris_notts of the ZBB.

>> P.S. I <3 ASL also. You may like to look up David Peterson's SLIPA and
>> signed conlang on dedalvs.free.fr. And if you haven't yet, go read
>> _Signs of Language_ 1 & 2 by Klima & Bellugi right now.
>
>Oh yeah, ASL <3. I'm still a huge newb, having only done about 75 hours in
>class, but hopefully this summer I'll get work in a deaf group home.
In that connexion: I've recently started playing around with constructing
(a) remapping(s) of ASL phonology into oral phonology, as isomorphically as
possible.  Once there's more to it I mean to show it to the list.

Alex